CVE-2024-36991 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability affecting Splunk Enterprise on Windows versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw via the /modules/messaging/ endpoint to read arbitrary files on the system, leading to a high impact on confidentiality. While not yet in the KEV catalog, exploit intelligence indicates available Nuclei templates and media coverage highlights its ease of exploitation, with significant community discussion suggesting active interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.1.0, < 9.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.2.0, < 9.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.0, < 9.0.10CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.1, < 9.1.5CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.