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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2023-32714 in the critical feed json

Path Traversal in Splunk App for Lookup File Editing

published 2023-06-01 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-36941

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
42.8%
EPSS 42.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Splunk App for Lookup File Editing versions below 4.0.1, a low-privileged user can, with a specially crafted web request, trigger a path traversal exploit that can then be used to read and write to restricted areas of the Splunk installation directory.

Patch / fix

  • Splunk Splunk App for Lookup File Editing 4.0.1

Exploit prediction

42.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • Splunk Splunk App for Lookup File Editing

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-35 Path Traversal: '.../...//'
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.