In versions of Splunk Enterprise below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform below version 9.0.2303.100, 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 specially crafted web requests.
Metrics
CVSS Version: 3.1 |
Base Score: 8.8 HIGH Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-ID: CWE-285 CWE Name: The software does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Source: Splunk
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)