vulnerability
Splunk: CVE-2024-36997: Persistent Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in conf-web/settings REST endpoint
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N) | Jul 1, 2024 | Apr 7, 2025 | May 27, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jul 1, 2024
Added
Apr 7, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2026
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312, an admin user could store and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the browser context of another Splunk user through the conf-web/settings REST endpoint. This could potentially cause a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit.
Solution
splunk-upgrade-latest
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