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CVE-2023-32707

85
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-32707 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform below 9.0.2303.100. A low-privileged user with the 'edit_user' capability can craft specific web requests to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code, including a Metasploit module and an ExploitDB entry, is available, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.1.0, < 8.1.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 8.2.0, < 8.2.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 9.0.0, < 9.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
< 9.0.2303.100CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
78.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Splunk "edit_user" Capability Privilege Escalation · Jun 1, 2023
ExploitDB: EDB-51747 · Oct 9, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7888 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

elasticpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: ['8.1.14', '8.2.11', '9.0.5', '9.0.2303.100']

Vendor Advisories (1)

elasticllm-elastic-d22cbe4a4cd975f4HIGH

‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation

Jun 1, 2023

References

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