CVE-2023-32707

‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation

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.

Affected

Splunk · Splunk Enterprise · Splunk Cloud Platform

CVSS v3.1 NVD

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

79.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile

Published

2023-06-01

Updated

2025-03-11

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• 9xN/CVE-2023-327072★ · 2023-11-14
• LoanVitor/Splunk-9.0.5---admin-account-take-over0★ · 2023-11-10

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/splunk_privilege_esca…

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51747

Security advisories

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0602
• https://research.splunk.com/application/39e1c326-67d7-4c0d-8584-8056354f6593

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2022-22963
• CVE-2024-3400