CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-36990

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Jul 01, 2024 | Modified: Aug 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.100, an authenticated, low-privileged user that does not hold the admin or power Splunk roles could send a specially crafted HTTP POST request to the datamodel/web REST endpoint in Splunk Enterprise, potentially causing a denial of service.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Splunk Splunk 9.0.0 (including) 9.0.10 (excluding)
Splunk Splunk 9.1.0 (including) 9.1.5 (excluding)
Splunk Splunk 9.2.0 (including) 9.2.2 (excluding)
Splunk_cloud_platform Splunk 9.1.2308 (including) 9.1.2308.209 (excluding)
Splunk_cloud_platform Splunk 9.1.2312.100 (including) 9.1.2312.109 (excluding)
Splunk_cloud_platform Splunk 9.1.2312.200 (including) 9.1.2312.202 (excluding)

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