CVE-2023-46214: splunk cloud
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-46214 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in splunk cloud. EPSS estimates a 89.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Timeline
- 16-11-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 16-12-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.7 and 9.1.2, Splunk Enterprise does not safely sanitize extensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT) that users supply. This means that an attacker can upload malicious XSLT which can result in remote code execution on the Splunk Enterprise instance.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version- CVE.orgCNA8.0HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
89.17%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
100%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 89.17% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundSplunk Authenticated XSLT Upload RCE
exploit/unix/http/splunk_xslt_authenticated_rce
Maturity: weaponized
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Splunk4 products
- cloud< 9.1.2308
- splunk≥ 9.0.0, < 9.0.7 | ≥ 9.1.0, < 9.1.2
- splunk cloud≥ -, < 9.1.2308
- splunk enterprise≥ 9.0, < 9.0.7 | ≥ 9.1, < 9.1.2
1 vendor · 4 products
References
3 links- advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-1104Vendor Advisory