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Authenticated RCE in Splunk (SimpleXML dashboard PDF generation)

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Disclosed
Nov 2, 2022
Created
Jan 21, 2026

Description

This Metasploit module exploits a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise.

An attacker can inject arbitrary Python code into style parameters, such as the fillColor or lineColor of a sparkline element within a Splunk SimpleXML dashboard.
The malicious code is executed when a user triggers the PDF export function for the dashboard.

The affected versions include any release prior to 8.1.12, as well as versions 8.2.0 through 8.2.9 and 9.0.0 through 9.0.2.

Authors

Maksim Rogov
Danylo Dmytriiev
psytester

Platform

Python

Architectures

python

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/splunk_auth_rce_cve_2022_43571
    msf exploit(splunk_auth_rce_cve_2022_43571) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(splunk_auth_rce_cve_2022_43571) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(splunk_auth_rce_cve_2022_43571) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(splunk_auth_rce_cve_2022_43571) > exploit
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