CVE-2023-22938 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘sendemail’ REST API endpoint lets any authenticated user send an email as the Splunk instance. The endpoint is now restricted to the ‘splunk-system-user’ account on the local instance.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Splunk	Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0208

History

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Splunk

Published: 2023-02-14T17:24:46.893Z

Updated: 2025-03-19T18:53:03.165Z

Reserved: 2023-01-10T21:39:55.584Z

Link: CVE-2023-22938

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:20:31.381Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-14T18:15:12.617

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:45:40.823

Link: CVE-2023-22938

Redhat

No data.

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