Persistent Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in conf-web/settings REST endpoint

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (6 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.

Weakness

• CWE-79: The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Splunk · Splunk Enterprise

  • 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 (2)

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2024-0717 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://research.splunk.com/application/ed1209ef-228d-4dab-9856-be9369925a5c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-36997](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-36997.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-36997)

Record last updated 28 Feb 2025, 11:03 UTC.