Vulnerability · Published Oct 1, 2025 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2025-20369Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) through Dashboard label field on Splunk Enterprise
Medium 4.6
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Splunk Cloud Platform from Splunk. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Splunk | Splunk Enterprise | 10.0 – before 10.0.09.4 – before 9.4.49.3 – before 9.3.69.2 – before 9.2.8 |
| Splunk | Splunk Cloud Platform | 9.3.2411 – before 9.3.2411.1089.3.2408 – before 9.3.2408.1189.2.2406 – before 9.2.2406.123 |
Weakness: CWE-776 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L