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High severity8.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-40598

CVE-2023-40598

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The attacker can use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation directory. From there, a user can execute arbitrary code on the Splunk platform Instance.

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Affected products

5
  • Splunk/Splunk
    cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
    Range: <8.2.12
  • Splunk/Splunk Cloud Platform2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <9.0.2305.200
    • (no CPE)range: -
  • Splunk/Splunk Enterprisellm-fuzzy2 versions
    <8.2.12, <9.0.6, <9.1.1+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <8.2.12, <9.0.6, <9.1.1
    • (no CPE)range: 8.2

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