CVE-2023-40593CWE-400

Denial of Service (DoS) in Splunk Enterprise Using a Malformed SAML Request

Medium · published August 30, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemon.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00582 · 47.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2023-08-30T16:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 AUG 16:19Z
    Denial of Service (DoS) in Splunk Enterprise Using a Malformed SAML Request
    cvelistv5