Low-privileged User can View Hashed Default Splunk Password

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• CWE-285: The software does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-285 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Splunk · Splunk Enterprise

  • affected 8.1 – < 8.1.14
  • affected 8.2 – < 8.2.11
  • affected 9.0 – < 9.0.5

• Splunk · Splunk Cloud Platform

  • affected - – < 9.0.2303.100

References (2)

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0604 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://research.splunk.com/application/a1be424d-e59c-4583-b6f9-2dcc23be4875/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-32709](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-32709.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-32709)

Record last updated 28 Feb 2025, 11:03 UTC.