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Splunk: CVE-2022-37439: Malformed ZIP file crashes Universal Forwarders and Splunk Enterprise through file monitoring input

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 16, 2022
Added
Apr 7, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2026

Description

In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions in the following table, indexing a specially crafted ZIP file using the file monitoring input can result in a crash of the application. Attempts to restart the application would result in a crash and would require manually removing the malformed file. The vulnerability does not affect Splunk Enterprise 9.0 or higher.

Solution

splunk-upgrade-latest
Title
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