CVE-2025-20369 (GCVE-0-2025-20369)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 16:07 – Updated: 2025-10-01 17:36
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) through Dashboard label field on Splunk Enterprise
Summary
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.
Severity
4.6 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 17:22 UTC
CWE
- CWE-776 - The software uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Splunk | Splunk Enterprise |
Affected:
10.0 , < 10.0.0
(custom)
Affected: 9.4 , < 9.4.4 (custom) Affected: 9.3 , < 9.3.6 (custom) Affected: 9.2 , < 9.2.8 (custom) |
guessed | |
| Splunk | Splunk Cloud Platform |
Affected:
9.3.2411 , < 9.3.2411.108
(custom)
Affected: 9.3.2408 , < 9.3.2408.118 (custom) Affected: 9.2.2406 , < 9.2.2406.123 (custom) |
guessed |
Date Public
2025-10-01 00:00
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