CVE-2023-46214
This means that an attacker can upload malicious XSLT which can result in remote code execution on the Splunk Enterprise instance.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 89.2%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.7 and 9.1.2, Splunk Enterprise does not safely sanitize extensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT) that users supply. This means that an attacker can upload malicious XSLT which can result in remote code execution on the Splunk Enterprise instance.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 89.17% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-91
- Affected
- splunk/cloud · splunk/splunk
- Source
- prodsec@splunk.com
EPSS 89.2% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-1104Vendor Advisory
- https://research.splunk.com/application/6cb7e011-55fb-48e3-a98d-164fa854e37e/Vendor Advisory
- https://research.splunk.com/application/a053e6a6-2146-483a-9798-2d43652f3299/Vendor Advisory
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-1104Vendor Advisory
- https://research.splunk.com/application/6cb7e011-55fb-48e3-a98d-164fa854e37e/Vendor Advisory
- https://research.splunk.com/application/a053e6a6-2146-483a-9798-2d43652f3299/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.