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

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

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.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: from 8.1.0 before 8.1.14; from 8.2.0 before 8.2.11; from 9.0.0 before 9.0.5 — fixed in 8.1.14, 8.2.11, 9.0.5
• Splunk Cloud Platform: before 9.0.2303.100 — fixed in 9.0.2303.100

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 8.1.14, 8.2.11, 9.0.5; Splunk Cloud Platform 9.0.2303.100. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0604
• https://research.splunk.com/application/a1be424d-e59c-4583-b6f9-2dcc23be4875/
• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0604
• https://research.splunk.com/application/a1be424d-e59c-4583-b6f9-2dcc23be4875/

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