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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Splunk Enterprise up to 8.x. This affects an unknown function of the component Command-Line Interface. The manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2022-32156. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Splunk Enterprise up to 8.x (Log Management Software). This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Command-Line Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions before 9.0, the Splunk command-line interface (CLI) did not validate TLS certificates while connecting to a remote Splunk platform instance by default. After updating to version 9.0, see Configure TLS host name validation for the Splunk CLI https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/EnableTLSCertHostnameValidation#Configure_TLS_host_name_validation_for_the_Splunk_CLI to enable the remediation. The vulnerability does not affect the Splunk Cloud Platform. At the time of publishing, we have no evidence of exploitation of this vulnerability by external parties. The issue requires conditions beyond the control of a potential bad actor such as a machine-in-the-middle attack. Hence, Splunk rates the complexity of the attack as High.

The weakness was presented 06/15/2022. The advisory is shared at docs.splunk.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-32156 since 05/31/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1587.003 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 9.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Log Management Software

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• Splunk

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• Enterprise

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• 8.x

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• commercial

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