Medium6.5Splunk

Splunk Enterprise: In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to p…

CVE-2023-40594 Published Aug 30, 2023Updated by vendor Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-40594

Affected products & platforms

SplunkSplunk Enterprise

Summary

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to perform a denial of service (DoS) against the Splunk Enterprise instance.

Mitigation

Mitigation steps weren't captured by the parser for this advisory — this is a parsing gap, not a statement that no fix exists. Read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.

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