Medium severity · published Jun 1, 2023
CVE-2023-32709
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11
4.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11. and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user who holds the ‘user’ role can see the hashed version of the initial user name and password for the Splunk instance by using the ‘rest’ SPL command against the ‘conf-user-seed’ REST endpoint.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% 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-2023-32709
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32709
Vendor Advisory
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0604
Vendor Advisory
https://research.splunk.com/application/a1be424d-e59c-4583-b6f9-2dcc23be4875/
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