CVE-2023-32707: high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise
‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation
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78Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.8epss 79%
from disclosure to weapon130 days
Published on NVDJun 1
1st PoC+130d
metasploitJun 1
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
public PoCs found — 2
exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/51747unverifiedgithubgithub.com/9xN/CVE-2023-32707★ 2⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
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