CVE-2024-22165 Denial of Service in Splunk Enterprise Security of the Investigations manager through Investigation creation
An authenticated attacker can cause a denial of service in Splunk Enterprise Security by creating a malformed investigation, rendering the Investigations manager unusable.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-22165?
CVE-2024-22165 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), published on 9 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) versions lower than 7.1.2, an attacker can create a malformed Investigation to perform a denial of service (DoS). The malformed investigation prevents the generation and rendering of the Investigations manager until it is deleted.<br>The vulnerability requires an authenticated session and access to create an Investigation. It only affects the availability of the Investigations manager, but without the manager, the Investigations functionality becomes unusable for most users.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22165?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Splunk Enterprise Security.
How do I fix CVE-2024-22165?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-22165 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-22165 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-22165 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w48w-95mf-vvc4.