CVE-2023-32707

‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Jun 1, 2023
Updated: Mar 11, 2025
Reserved: May 11, 2023

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Splunk

Weaknesses

CWE-285 The software does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	8.1 to before 8.1.14Affected 8.2 to before 8.2.11Affected 9.0 to before 9.0.5Affected
Splunk Cloud PlatformSplunk	- to before 9.0.2303.100Affected

References

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