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CVE-2024-45740: Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) through Scheduled Views on Splunk Enterprise

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2024-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.3 and 9.1.6 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a malicious payload through Scheduled Views that could result in execution of unauthorized JavaScript code in the browser of a user.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: from 9.1.0 before 9.1.6; from 9.2.0 before 9.2.3 — fixed in 9.1.6, 9.2.3
• Splunk Cloud Platform: before 9.2.2403.100 — fixed in 9.2.2403.100

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 9.1.6, 9.2.3; Splunk Cloud Platform 9.2.2403.100. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-1010
• https://research.splunk.com/application/d4f55f7c-6518-4122-a197-951fe0f21b25/

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