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CVE-2022-32154: Risky commands warnings in Splunk Enterprise Dashboards
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2022-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
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.
Affected products
- Splunk Enterprise: before 9.0 — fixed in 9.0
- Splunk Cloud Platform: before 8.2.2106 — fixed in 8.2.2106
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 9.0; Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2106. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/SPLsafeguards#New_capabilities_can_limit_access_to_some_custom_and_potentially_risky_commands
- https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/Updates
- https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_command_and_scripting_interpreter_delete_usage/
- https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_command_and_scripting_interpreter_risky_commands/
- https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_command_and_scripting_interpreter_risky_spl_mltk/
- https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0604.html
- https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/SPLsafeguards#New_capabilities_can_limit_access_to_some_custom_and_potentially_risky_commands
- https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/Updates
- https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_command_and_scripting_interpreter_delete_usage/
- https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_command_and_scripting_interpreter_risky_commands/
- https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_command_and_scripting_interpreter_risky_spl_mltk/
- https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0604.html
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