CVE-2023-32713

Local Privilege Escalation via the ‘streamfwd’ program in Splunk App for Stream

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jun 1, 2023
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Reserved: May 11, 2023

Description

In Splunk App for Stream versions below 8.1.1, a low-privileged user could use a vulnerability in the streamfwd process within the Splunk App for Stream to escalate their privileges on the machine that runs the Splunk Enterprise instance, up to and including the root user.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	Splunk

Weaknesses

CWE-269 The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk App for StreamSplunk	8.1 to before 8.1.1Affected

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0607

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