CVE-2024-36983: Splunk

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312.109 and 9.1.2308.207, an authenticated user could create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The authenticated user could use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation directory. From there, the user could execute arbitrary code on the Splunk platform Instance.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 9.0.0, before 9.0.10 (fixed in 9.0.10); from 9.1.0, before 9.1.5 (fixed in 9.1.5); from 9.2.0, before 9.2.2 (fixed in 9.2.2)
• Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform: from 9.1.2308, before 9.1.2308.207 (fixed in 9.1.2308.207); from 9.1.2312, before 9.1.2312.109 (fixed in 9.1.2312.109)

Published 2024-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.