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CVE-2022-37437: Ingest Actions UI in Splunk Enterprise 9.0.0 disabled TLS certificate validation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

When using Ingest Actions to configure a destination that resides on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in Splunk Web, TLS certificate validation is not correctly performed and tested for the destination. The vulnerability only affects connections between Splunk Enterprise and an Ingest Actions Destination through Splunk Web and only applies to environments that have configured TLS certificate validation. It does not apply to Destinations configured directly in the outputs.conf configuration file. The vulnerability affects Splunk Enterprise version 9.0.0 and does not affect versions below 9.0.0, including the 8.1.x and 8.2.x versions.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: 9.0.0

References

• https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0801.html
• https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0801.html

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