Good day! In the future, please report security concerns via support if you have a support agreement or via the Splunk Product Security Portal http://www.splunk.com/page/securityportal This is a false positive for 2 reasons: This request is generating a 303 redirection page and there are no supported browsers that we are aware of that interpret Javascript in this context. The context that the issue is a Javascript string parsing context. The input string cannot escape the context due to the presence of other encoding rules. Thanks for the report and please use the portal in the future in case this isn't a false positive issue and we need to deliver a fix to you and other customers! ... View more

Great question! These OpenSSL updates will be part of our next maintenance release. Based on known usages of OpenSSL within Splunk, OpenSSL TLS protocol downgrade attack (CVE-2014-3511) is the main risk. We are working on the next maintenance releases and will issue updated security advisories. In the meantime, keep an eye on Splunk Product Security Portal for additional updates and announcements. ... View more