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GHSA-M653-M4XM-RXRR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-07-06 21:15 – Updated: 2024-04-04 05:48

Details

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.

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2023-32707 (GCVE-0-2023-32707)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-01 16:34 – Updated: 2025-03-11 15:02

Title

‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-06 15:27 UTC

CWE

CWE-285 - The software does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

Assigner

Splunk

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0602
https://research.splunk.com/application/39e1c326-…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Splunk	Splunk Enterprise	Affected: 8.1 , < 8.1.14 (custom) Affected: 8.2 , < 8.2.11 (custom) Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.5 (custom)
Splunk	Splunk Cloud Platform	Affected: - , < 9.0.2303.100 (custom)

Date Public

2023-06-01 00:00

Credits

Mr Hack (try_to_hack) Santiago Lopez

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