CVE-2024-36997Persistent Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in conf-web/settings REST endpoint
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.55%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312, an admin user could store and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the browser context of another Splunk user through the conf-web/settings REST endpoint. This could potentially cause a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Splunk
- 32 days later
· 32 days later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| SplunkCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
- affected 9.2 – < 9.2.2
- affected 9.1 – < 9.1.5
- affected 9.0 – < 9.0.10
Splunk · Splunk Cloud Platform
- affected 9.1.2312 – < 9.1.2312.100
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-36384 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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