# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Jan 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w48w-95mf-vvc4

## 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 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22165?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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)

- [CVE-2026-76387](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76387/): SPL Injection through the REST API in Splunk Enterprise Security (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2026-76388](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76388/): Privilege Escalation through Search Macro Permissions in Splunk Enterprise Security (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2024-22164](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22164/): Denial of Service of an Investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security through Investigation attachments (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-22165 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-22165 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Splunk Enterprise Security (ES). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22165/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22165/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22165
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22165
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-22165

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22165/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.