Tracker / CVE-2023-40596
CVE-2023-40596
High 7.0
In Splunk Enterprise versions earlier than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, a dynamic link library (DLL) that ships with Splunk Enterprise references an insecure path for the OPENSSLDIR build definition. An attacker can abuse this reference and subsequently install malicious code to achieve privilege escalation on the Windows machine.
Affected products and versions
| splunk | splunk |
|---|---|
| splunk | splunk · 8.2.0 → 8.2.12 |
| splunk | splunk · 9.0.0 → 9.0.6 |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.