CVE-2023-32707
‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation
- Published
- Jun 1, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 11, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- Splunk
- Evidence observed
- Oct 9, 2023
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
2- CVE-2023-32707Exploit
An improved POC exploit based on the reported CVE on exploitdb
Redway Security · multiple · Oct 9, 2023
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