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CVE-2022-43572

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-43572 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.9, 8.1.12, and 9.0.2, and Splunk Cloud Platform. An authenticated attacker can send a malformed file via Splunk-to-Splunk (S2S) or HTTP Event Collector (HEC) protocols to an indexer, causing it to block or cease further indexing. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5, this vulnerability has a high availability impact (A:H) but no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion beyond a single media report.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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:*:*:*
< 9.0.2209CPE 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

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0077 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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', '9.0.2209.3']

Vendor Advisories (1)

libreofficellm-libreoffice-16419155c03216f6HIGH

Indexing blockage via malformed data sent through S2S or HEC protocols in Splunk Enterprise

Nov 2, 2022

References

splunk.com / en_us/product-security/announcements/svd-2022-1111.html
Not ApplicableVendor Advisory