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High · 8.8 Public exploit CVE-2022-43571 EUVD-2022-46567GHSA-fw8h-qc74-r2c2

Remote Code Execution through dashboard PDF generation component in Splunk Enterprise

Published Nov 3, 2022 · Updated May 2, 2025 · Assigned by Splunk

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.9, 8.1.12, and 9.0.2, an authenticated user can execute arbitrary code through the dashboard PDF generation component.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Splunk Splunk Enterprise 8.1 – < 8.1.12, 8.2 – < 8.2.9, 9.0 – < 9.0.2 8.1.12

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

GitHub 1 repository

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