CVE-2023-40592: Splunk

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.1.1, 9.0.6, and 8.2.12, an attacker can craft a special web request that can result in reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) on the “/app/search/table” web endpoint. Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to the execution of arbitrary commands on the Splunk platform instance.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 8.2.0, before 8.2.12 (fixed in 8.2.12); from 9.0.0, before 9.0.6 (fixed in 9.0.6); version 9.1.0 only
• Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform: up to and including 9.0.2305.100

Published 2023-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.