In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, a cross-site request forgery in the Splunk Secure Gateway (SSG) app in the ‘kvstore_client’ REST endpoint lets a potential attacker update SSG [App Key Value Store (KV store)](https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/AboutKVstore) collections using an HTTP GET request. SSG is a Splunk-built app that comes with Splunk Enterprise. The vulnerability affects instances with SSG and Splunk Web enabled.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-22942

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-4r87-mf97-8jj9

Published

July 6, 2023 7:24 PM

Last Modified

February 16, 2024 6:31 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 11, 2025 6:35 AM

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