CVE-2022-43566

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-43566 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.9, 8.1.12, and 9.0.2, as well as Splunk Cloud Platform. It allows an authenticated user to bypass SPL safeguards in the Analytics Workspace, executing risky commands with higher privileges through a phishing attack. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.0 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity but requiring user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, with only one article covering the vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 8.1.0, < 8.1.12CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
		>= 8.2.0, < 8.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
		>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
		< 9.0.2208CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform::::::::
		>= 8.1, < 8.1.12CPE match	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.1

Impact Score

5.2

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.78%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

52.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0078 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 890 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

libreofficepatch availablevia llm_extracted

Fixed in: ['8.1.12', '8.2.9', '9.0.2', '9.0.2208']

Vendor Advisories (1)

libreofficellm-libreoffice-a9b2ca0ce9a50efeHIGH

Risky command safeguards bypass via Search ID query in Analytics Workspace in Splunk Enterprise

Nov 2, 2022

References

research.splunk.com / application/b6d77c6c-f011-4b03-8650-8f10edb7c4a8

ExploitVendor Advisory

splunk.com / en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-1106.html

Vendor Advisory