CVE-2024-45736 Improperly Formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ Parameter Crashes Splunk Daemon

What is CVE-2024-45736?

CVE-2024-45736 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Splunk Splunk, published on 14 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.107, 9.1.2312.204, and 9.1.2312.111, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a search query with an improperly formatted "INGEST_EVAL" parameter as part of a [Field Transformation](https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Managefieldtransforms) which could crash the Splunk daemon (splunkd).

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45736?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Splunk Splunk, Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2024-45736?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-45736 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-2024-45736 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-45736 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wf7c-j44x-2379.