cve/2023/CVE-2023-40595.md

### [CVE-2023-40595](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-40595)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Splunk%20Cloud&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Splunk%20Enterprise&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=-%3C%209.0.2305.200%20&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=8.2%3C%208.2.12%20&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=The%20application%20deserializes%20untrusted%20data%20without%20sufficiently%20verifying%20that%20the%20resulting%20data%20will%20be%20valid.&color=brighgreen)

### Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can execute a specially crafted query that they can then use to serialize untrusted data. The attacker can use the query to execute arbitrary code.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds