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CVE-2024-22165: Denial of Service in Splunk Enterprise Security of the Investigations manager through Investigation creation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise Security: from 7.1.0 before 7.1.2 — fixed in 7.1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise Security 7.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-0102
• https://research.splunk.com/application/7f6a07bd-82ef-46b8-8eba-802278abd00e/
• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-0102
• https://research.splunk.com/application/7f6a07bd-82ef-46b8-8eba-802278abd00e/

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