VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-40593

CVSS score6.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.58%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-08-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.

Weakness classification

  • prodsec@splunk.com: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references