Splunk Patched Critical Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Security

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA), which existed in several third-party packages.



The third-party package includes Splunk, which includes babel/traverse, handsontable, semver, loader-utils, json5, socket.io-parser, protobuf, and Guava.



However, Splunk has acted swiftly upon these vulnerabilities and patched them accordingly. The severity for these vulnerabilities ranges between 7.1 ( High ) and 9.8 ( Critical ).






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Technical Analysis



According to the reports shared with Cyber Security News, there were 13 vulnerabilities patched as per Splunk’s security advisories .



protobuf package had the highest number of vulnerabilities at 4 compared to other packages. 



The CVEs were CVE-2015-5237 (8.8), CVE-2022-3171 (7.5), CVE-2022-3509 (7.5), CVE-2022-3510 (7.5). With 3 vulnerabilities, loader-utils became the second package with the highest number of vulnerabilities with one critical vulnerability.



The CVEs of loader-utils package vulnerabilities were CVE-2022-37599 (7.5), CVE-2022-37603 (7.5), and CVE-2022-37601 (9.8).



Other third-party packages like babel/traverse, handsontable, semver, json5, socket.io-parser, and Guava had one high severity vulnerability each. The CVEs were as follows.



babel/traverse (CVE-2023-45133 – 8.8)



handsontable (CVE-2021-23446 – 7.5)



semver (CVE-2022-25883 – 7.5)



json5 (CVE-2022-46175 – 8.8)



socket.io-parser (CVE-2023-32695 – 7.5)



Guava (CVE-2023-2976 – 7.1)
Affected Products and Fixed in Version



Product Version Component Affected Version Fix Version Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) 7.3 – – 7.3.0 Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) 7.2 – – 7.2.0 Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) 7.1 – Below 7.1.2 7.1.2 Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) – – Below 5.3.0 5.3.0 Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) – – Below 5.2.1 5.2.1 It is recommended for users of these products to upgrade to the mentioned versions or higher to prevent these vulnerabilities from getting exploited by threat actors.



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