High severity · published Jun 1, 2023
CVE-2023-32707
In versions of Splunk Enterprise below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform below version 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user who holds a role that has the…
8.8
CVSS
79%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In versions of Splunk Enterprise below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform below version 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user who holds a role that has the ‘edit_user’ capability assigned to it can escalate their privileges to that of the admin user by providing specially crafted web requests.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)79.0% · higher than 100% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SP
Splunk · Splunk
8.1.0 before 8.1.14; 8.2.0 before 8.2.11; 9.0.0 before 9.0.5 · source: NVD
SC
Splunk Cloud Platform · Splunk
before 9.0.2303.100 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32707
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32707
Vendor Advisory
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0602
Vendor Advisory
https://research.splunk.com/application/39e1c326-67d7-4c0d-8584-8056354f6593/
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