CVE-2018-7429 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise versions 6.2.x, 6.3.x, and 6.4.x, and Splunk Light before 6.5.0. A remote attacker can trigger this by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the splunkd process. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing. However, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:light:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.2.0, < 6.2.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.3.0, < 6.3.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.4.0, < 6.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.