Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 1, 2023· Updated Mar 11, 2025

‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation

CVE-2023-32707

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.

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Affected products

Splunk/Splunk Cloud Platformllm-fuzzy2 versions
<9.0.2303.100+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <9.0.2303.100
- (no CPE)range: -
Splunk/Splunk Enterprisellm-fuzzy2 versions
<9.0.5, <8.2.11, <8.1.14+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <9.0.5, <8.2.11, <8.1.14
- (no CPE)range: 8.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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

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