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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2023-22938 EUVD-2023-27040GHSA-f44g-3vj9-vwv9

Permissions Validation Failure in the ‘sendemail’ REST API Endpoint in Splunk Enterprise

Published Feb 14, 2023 · Updated Mar 19, 2025 · Assigned by Splunk

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Splunk Splunk Enterprise 8.1 – < 8.1.13, 8.2 – < 8.2.10, 9.0 – < 9.0.4 8.1.13
Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform - – < 9.0.2212 9.0.2212

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