CVE-2023-32709
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-285
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (32th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2023-36936)
- Published
- June 1, 2023
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2023-36936 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on February 28, 2025.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- splunk / splunk
- splunk / splunk cloud platform
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Splunk Enterprise 9.0.4 - Splunk, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11330-2023 - archived
- Splunk Enterprise 8.1 - Splunk, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11108-2021 - archived
References
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0604(Vendor Advisory)
- https://research.splunk.com/application/a1be424d-e59c-4583-b6f9-2dcc23be4875/(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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