vulnerability
Splunk: CVE-2022-23308: Use After Free
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 16, 2022 | Sep 30, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 16, 2022
Added
Sep 30, 2025
Modified
Dec 18, 2025
Description
In Splunk Enterprise and the Universal Forwarder, the libxml2 implementation and its handling of XML do not meet the prerequisites for potential exploitation (for example, parsing with the XML_PARSE_DTDVALID and without the XML_PARSE_NOENT options). As such, CVE-2022-23308 does not affect Splunk Enterprise and the Universal Forwarder. The vulnerability is Informational only.
Solution
splunk-upgrade-latest
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