CVE-2023-32707CWE-285

‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation

High · published June 1, 2023

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High probability of exploitation

CVSS calls it high at 8.8. It sits in the 99.6th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS v3.1

8.8

EPSS

79%

Percentile

99.6

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

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.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS v3.1: 8.8 · HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.79019 · 99.6th percentile
Weakness: CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
Published: 2023-06-01T16:34Z

EPSS history

Timeline

01 JUN 16:34Z
‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation
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