5.4

CVE-2024-45741: splunk Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 5.4v3.1MediumAnalyzed
Published 14-10-2024Last modified 28-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-45741 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in splunk. EPSS estimates a 14.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
25/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
14.80%
0%100%
Medium · +0.94 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 14-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.3 and 9.1.6 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.108 and 9.1.2312.205, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could create a malicious payload through a custom configuration file that the "api.uri" parameter from the "/manager/search/apps/local" endpoint in Splunk Web calls. This could result in execution of unauthorized JavaScript code in the browser of a user.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

14.80%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

97%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.94 pp

From 13.86% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
14.80%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Splunk3 products

1 vendor · 3 products

References

2 links