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High · 7.8 CVE-2023-40597 EUVD-2023-45155GHSA-prvp-v5vw-h6ph

Absolute Path Traversal in Splunk Enterprise Using runshellscript.py

Published Aug 30, 2023 · Updated Jul 1, 2025 · Assigned by Splunk

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can exploit an absolute path traversal to execute arbitrary code that is located on a separate disk.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Splunk Splunk Enterprise 8.2 – < 8.2.12, 9.0 – < 9.0.6, 9.1 – < 9.1.1 8.2.12
Splunk Splunk Cloud - – < 9.0.2305.200 9.0.2305.200

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