Splunk recently addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability several vulnerabilities in Enterprise and Light products , some of them have been rated “ high severity. ” Splunk Enterprise solution allows organizations to aggregate , search , analyze , and visualize data from various sources that are critical to business operations . The Splunk Light is a comprehensive solution for small IT environments that automates log analysis and integrate server and network monitoring . “ To mitigate these issues , Splunk recommends upgrading Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability to the latest release and applying Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability as many of the Hardening Standards from the Securing Splunk documentation as are relevant to your environment . Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Light releases are cumulative , meaning that future releases will contain fixes to these vulnerabilities , new features and other bug fixes , ” reads the advisory published Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability by Splunk . The most severe issue fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability by the company is a high severity cross-site scripting ( XSS ) flaw in the Web interface , tracked as Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-7427 , that received the CVSS score of 8.1 . Another severe vulnerability is a DoS flaw tracked as Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-7432 that could be exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability using malicious HTTP requests sent to Splunkd that is the system process that handles indexing , searching and forwarding . This issue was tracked as Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability “ medium severity ” by the company . The company also addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a denial-of-service ( DoS ) vulnerability , tracked as Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-7429 , that could be exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by an attacker by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to Splunkd . The last flaw addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability by the vendor , tracked as Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-7431 , is a path traversal issue that allows an authenticated attacker to download arbitrary files from the vendor Django app . The vulnerability has been rated Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability “ medium severity. ” The vendor declared it has found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in attacks in the wild .