Splunk Patched Critical Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Security

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA), which existed in several third-party packages.

The third-party package includes Splunk, which includes babel/traverse, handsontable, semver, loader-utils, json5, socket.io-parser, protobuf, and Guava.

However, Splunk has acted swiftly upon these vulnerabilities and patched them accordingly. The severity for these vulnerabilities ranges between 7.1 (High) and 9.8 (Critical).

Document
Free Webinar

Fastrack Compliance: The Path to ZERO-Vulnerability

Compounding the problem are zero-day vulnerabilities like the MOVEit SQLi, Zimbra XSS, and 300+ such vulnerabilities that get discovered each month. Delays in fixing these vulnerabilities lead to compliance issues, these delay can be minimized with a unique feature on AppTrana that helps you to get “Zero vulnerability report” within 72 hours.

Technical Analysis

According to the reports shared with Cyber Security News, there were 13 vulnerabilities patched as per Splunk’s security advisories.

protobuf package had the highest number of vulnerabilities at 4 compared to other packages. 

The CVEs were CVE-2015-5237 (8.8), CVE-2022-3171 (7.5), CVE-2022-3509 (7.5), CVE-2022-3510 (7.5). With 3 vulnerabilities, loader-utils became the second package with the highest number of vulnerabilities with one critical vulnerability.

The CVEs of loader-utils package vulnerabilities were CVE-2022-37599 (7.5), CVE-2022-37603 (7.5), and CVE-2022-37601 (9.8).

Other third-party packages like babel/traverse, handsontable, semver, json5, socket.io-parser, and Guava had one high severity vulnerability each. The CVEs were as follows.

  • babel/traverse (CVE-2023-45133 – 8.8)
  • handsontable (CVE-2021-23446 – 7.5)
  • semver (CVE-2022-25883 – 7.5)
  • json5 (CVE-2022-46175 – 8.8)
  • socket.io-parser (CVE-2023-32695 – 7.5)
  • Guava (CVE-2023-2976 – 7.1)

Affected Products and Fixed in Version

ProductVersionComponentAffected VersionFix Version
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)7.37.3.0
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)7.27.2.0
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)7.1Below 7.1.27.1.2
Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA)Below 5.3.05.3.0
Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA)Below 5.2.15.2.1

It is recommended for users of these products to upgrade to the mentioned versions or higher to prevent these vulnerabilities from getting exploited by threat actors.

Looking for cost-effective penetration testing services? Try Kelltron’s to assess and evaluate the security posture of digital systems – 

Eswar

Eswar is a Cyber security content editor with a passion for creating captivating and informative content. With years of experience under his belt in Cyber Security, he is covering Cyber Security News, technology and other news.

Recent Posts

APT29 Hackers Use GRAPELOADER in New Attack Against European Diplomats

Check Point Research (CPR) has uncovered a new targeted phishing campaign employing GRAPELOADER, a sophisticated…

24 minutes ago

Chinese Hackers Unleash New BRICKSTORM Malware to Target Windows and Linux Systems

A sophisticated cyber espionage campaign leveraging the newly identified BRICKSTORM malware variants has targeted European…

30 minutes ago

Hacktivist Group Becomes More Sophisticated, Targets Critical Infrastructure to Deploy Ransomware

A recent report by Cyble has shed light on the evolving tactics of hacktivist groups,…

48 minutes ago

CISA Issues 9 New ICS Advisories Addressing Critical Vulnerabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released nine new advisories detailing severe…

1 hour ago

10 Best Email Security Solutions in 2025

Email security solutions are critical for protecting organizations from the growing sophistication of cyber threats…

2 hours ago

WhatsApp Job Offer Scam Targets Job Seekers in New Phishing Attack

A new form of phishing attack is making waves among job seekers, as cybercriminals exploit…

2 hours ago