CVE-2025-20369

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.4, 9.3.6, and 9.2.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.108, 9.3.2408.118 and 9.2.2406.123, a low privilege user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could perform an extensible markup language (XML) external entity (XXE) injection through the dashboard tab label field. The XXE injection has the potential to cause denial of service (DoS) attacks.

CVSS v3 4.6 MEDIUM

4.6^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.1 / Impact : 2.5

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1004	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform::::::::

History

08 Oct 2025, 20:24

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CWE		CWE-611
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::* cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform::::::::
First Time		Splunk Splunk splunk Cloud Platform Splunk splunk
References	~~() https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1004 -~~	() https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1004 - Vendor Advisory

01 Oct 2025, 17:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-10-01 17:15

Updated : 2025-10-08 20:24

NVD link : CVE-2025-20369

Mitre link : CVE-2025-20369

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-20369

JSON object : View

Products Affected

splunk

splunk_cloud_platform
splunk

CWE

CWE-776

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

CWE-611

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

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