CVE-2022-32154 Risky commands warnings in Splunk Enterprise Dashboards
Attackers can inject risky search commands into Splunk dashboards via cross-origin requests, bypassing SPL safeguards and potentially executing code.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-32154?
CVE-2022-32154 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Splunk Splunk, published on 15 Jun 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Dashboards in Splunk Enterprise versions before 9.0 might let an attacker inject risky search commands into a form token when the token is used in a query in a cross-origin request. The result bypasses SPL safeguards for risky commands. See New capabilities can limit access to some custom and potentially risky commands (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/SPLsafeguards#New_capabilities_can_limit_access_to_some_custom_and_potentially_risky_commands) for more information. Note that the attack is browser-based and an attacker cannot exploit it at will.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-32154?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Splunk Splunk, Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform.
How do I fix CVE-2022-32154?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-32154 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2022-32154 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-32154 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-p25g-64wc-h88x.