CVE-2022-32153
HIGHSplunk Enterprise <9.0-8.2.2203 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
Splunk Enterprise peers in Splunk Enterprise versions before 9.0 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions before 8.2.2203 did not validate the TLS certificates during Splunk-to-Splunk communications by default. Splunk peer communications configured properly with valid certificates were not vulnerable. However, an attacker with administrator credentials could add a peer without a valid certificate and connections from misconfigured nodes without valid certificates did not fail by default. For Splunk Enterprise, update to Splunk Enterprise version 9.0 and Configure TLS host name validation for Splunk-to-Splunk communications (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/EnableTLSCertHostnameValidation) to enable the remediation.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/EnableTLSCertHostnameValidation
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/Updates
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_digital_certificates_infrastructure_version/
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_digital_certificates_lack_of_encryption/
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://research.splunk.com/application/splunk_protocol_impersonation_weak_encryption_selfsigned/
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://research.splunk.com/network/splunk_identified_ssl_tls_certificates/
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-0603.html
Scores
CVSS v3
8.1
EPSS
0.0030
EPSS Percentile
53.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-295
CWE-297
Status
published
Products (2)
splunk/splunk
< 9.0
splunk/splunk_cloud_platform
< 8.2.2203
Published
Jun 15, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026