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CVE-2023-40597

Absolute Path Traversal in Splunk Enterprise Using runshellscript.py



Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can exploit an absolute path traversal to execute arbitrary code that is located on a separate disk.

Reserved 2023-08-16 | Published 2023-08-30 | Updated 2025-07-01 | Assigner Splunk


HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as /abs/path that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Product status

8.2 before 8.2.12
affected

9.0 before 9.0.6
affected

9.1 before 9.1.1
affected

- before 9.0.2305.200
affected

Credits

Danylo Dmytriiev (DDV_UA)

References

advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0806

research.splunk.com/...356bd3fe-f59b-4f64-baa1-51495411b7ad/

cve.org (CVE-2023-40597)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-40597)

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