Exploitation Attempt of CVE-2023-46214 in Splunk Enterprise

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•updated Jan 30, 2025•0•20

Detects exploitation attempts of CVE-2023-46214, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise. The rule specifically looks for patterns associated with known public proof-of-concept (POC) code that leverages insecure XML parsing. It identifies POST requests to specific Splunk API endpoints (`/splunkd/__upload/indexing/preview` or `/api/search/jobs/results`) with particular URI query parameters (`NO_BINARY_CHECK=1`, `input.path=shell.xsl`, `/opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/dispatch/`, `/shell.xsl`) that indicate an attempt to upload and execute a malicious XSL stylesheet.