title: Low-privileged User can View Hashed Default Splunk Password
description: 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.
problem types: The software does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
affected:
{
product: Splunk Enterprise
vendor: Splunk
versions:
version: 8.1, status: affected, versionType: custom, lessThan: 8.1.14
version: 8.2, status: affected, versionType: custom, lessThan: 8.2.11
version: 9.0, status: affected, versionType: custom, lessThan: 9.0.5
}
{
product: Splunk Cloud Platform
vendor: Splunk
versions:
version: -, status: affected, versionType: custom, lessThan: 9.0.2303.100
}
metrics:
cvssV3_1: [
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
version: 3.1
baseScore: 4.3
baseSeverity: MEDIUM
]
format: CVSS
scenarios: GENERAL