November 2023 Splunk Universal Forwarder Third-Party Updates

Advisory ID: SVD-2023-1107

CVE ID:  Multiple

Published: 2023-11-16

Last Update: 2023-11-20

Description

Splunk remedied common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in Third Party Packages in Splunk Universal Forwarder, including the following:

PackageRemediationSeverity
bottleUpgraded to 0.12.25CVE-2022-31799
pythonUpgraded to 3.7.17CVE-2023-24329
opensslUpgraded to 1.0.2ziCVE-2023-3817
opensslUpgraded to 1.0.2ziCVE-2023-3446

Solution

For Splunk Universal Forwarder, upgrade versions to 9.0.7 or 9.1.2.

Product Status

ProductVersionComponentAffected VersionFix Version
Splunk Universal Forwarder9.0-9.0.0 to 9.0.69.0.7
Splunk Universal Forwarder9.1-9.1.0 to 9.1.19.1.2

Severity

For the CVEs in this list, Splunk adopted the national vulnerability database (NVD) common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) rating to align with industry standards.

Changelog

  • 2023-11-20: Corrected the product in the Product Status table from Splunk Enterprise to Splunk Universal Forwarder