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CVE-2023-46214

8.0
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
87.86%
HIGH RiskEPSS (99th percentile)

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.

Published: 11/16/2023
Modified: 11/21/2024
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

87.86%HIGH Exploitation Risk
99th percentile

This vulnerability has a 87.86% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 99% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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