vulnerability
Splunk: CVE-2023-32707: ‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jun 1, 2023 | Apr 7, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 1, 2023
Added
Apr 7, 2025
Modified
Oct 31, 2025
Description
A low-privileged user who holds a role that has the ‘edit_user’ capability assigned to it can escalate their privileges to that of the admin user by providing a specially crafted web request. This is because the ‘edit_user’ capability does not honor the ‘grantableRoles’ setting in the authorize.conf configuration file, which prevents this scenario from happening.
Solution
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