Authenticated email impersonation via unrestricted sendemail endpoint
Published Feb 14, 2023 · Updated Mar 19, 2025
Improper authorization in Splunk Web allows remote authenticated users to send email as affected Splunk Enterprise and Cloud instances. The sendemail REST endpoint accepts requests from any authenticated account instead of restricting access to the local splunk-system-user account. Low-privileged authenticated access is sufficient to originate messages under the instance identity; no confidentiality loss or service interruption is reported.
Summary
What happened
Improper authorization in Splunk Web allows remote authenticated users to send email as affected Splunk Enterprise and Cloud instances. The sendemail REST endpoint accepts requests from any authenticated account instead of restricting access to the local splunk-system-user account. Low-privileged authenticated access is sufficient to originate messages under the instance identity; no confidentiality loss or service interruption is reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-22938
- Published
- Feb 14, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Vendor
- Splunk, Inc.
- Product
- Splunk Enterprise
- Classifications
- CWE-285
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 14, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 19, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=8.1 <8.1.13
- Affected versionversion=8.2 <8.2.10
- Affected versionversion=9.0 <9.0.4
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