Splunk Enterprise Versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6 Have a Vulnerability in Field Transformation That Can Crash the Splunk Daemon

CVE-2024-45736

What is CVE-2024-45736?

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.2.2403.107, 9.1.2312.204, and 9.1.2312.111, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a search query with an improperly formatted "INGEST_EVAL" parameter as part of a Field Transformation which could crash the Splunk daemon (splunkd).

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