CVE-2025-20230 (GCVE-0-2025-20230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-26 22:24 – Updated: 2025-03-27 13:48
VLAI
Title
Missing Access Control and Incorrect Ownership of Data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections in the Splunk Secure Gateway App
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.1, 9.3.3, 9.2.5, and 9.1.8, and versions below 3.8.38 and 3.7.23 of the Splunk Secure Gateway app on Splunk Cloud Platform, a low-privileged user that does not hold the “admin“ or “power“ Splunk roles could edit and delete other user data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections that the Splunk Secure Gateway app created. This is due to missing access control and incorrect ownership of the data in those KVStore collections.<br><br>In the affected versions, the `nobody` user owned the data in the KVStore collections. This meant that there was no specific owner assigned to the data in those collections.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-27 13:48 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-284 - The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Assigner
cisco CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 431 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Affected: 9.4 , < 9.4.1 (custom)
Affected: 9.3 , < 9.3.3 (custom)
Affected: 9.2 , < 9.2.5 (custom)
Affected: 9.1 , < 9.1.8 (custom)
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Splunk Splunk Secure Gateway Affected: 3.8 , < 3.8.38 (custom)
Affected: 3.7 , < 3.7.23 (custom)
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Date Public
2025-03-26 00:00
Credits
Gabriel Nitu, Splunk<br><br>David Chen, Splunk
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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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