Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2023· Updated Jul 1, 2025
Absolute Path Traversal in Splunk Enterprise Using runshellscript.py
CVE-2023-40597
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can exploit an absolute path traversal to execute arbitrary code that is located on a separate disk.
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Affected products
3before 8.2.12, 9.0.6, 9.1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: before 8.2.12, 9.0.6, 9.1.1
- (no CPE)range: 8.2
- Range: -
Patches
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