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Medium [CVE-2023-32709] Splunk Enterprise: In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11.

This medium-severity Splunk advisory covers CVE-2023-32709 affecting Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform.

CVE-2023-32709 Published Jun 1, 2023Updated by vendor Jun 17, 2026
Affected products & platforms
SplunkSplunk EnterpriseSplunk Cloud Platform
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Summary

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 versions
  • 9.0.5
  • 8.2.11
  • 8.1.14
  • 9.0.2303.100

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

No fixed release is recorded yet. That does not prove no patch exists — confirm against the vendor advisory.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

Mitigation

The source record does not include mitigation steps. That is not a statement that no fix exists — read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

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