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.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Splunk | Splunk | 8.1.0 (including) | 8.1.14 (excluding) |
| Splunk | Splunk | 8.2.0 (including) | 8.2.11 (excluding) |
| Splunk | Splunk | 9.0.0 (including) | 9.0.5 (excluding) |
| Splunk_cloud_platform | Splunk | * | 9.0.2303.100 (excluding) |