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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2023-32709 EUVD-2023-36936GHSA-qgj7-qp4f-2mg6

Low-privileged User can View Hashed Default Splunk Password

Published Jun 1, 2023 · Updated Feb 28, 2025 · Assigned by Splunk

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Splunk Splunk Enterprise 8.1 – < 8.1.14, 8.2 – < 8.2.11, 9.0 – < 9.0.5 8.1.14
Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform - – < 9.0.2303.100 9.0.2303.100

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