CVE-2023-32709: Splunk

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Published 2023-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.