CVE-2025-20230

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
SplunkSplunk Enterprise9.4 < 9.4.1affected
SplunkSplunk Enterprise9.3 < 9.3.3affected
SplunkSplunk Enterprise9.2 < 9.2.5affected
SplunkSplunk Enterprise9.1 < 9.1.8affected
SplunkSplunk Secure Gateway3.8 < 3.8.38affected
SplunkSplunk Secure Gateway3.7 < 3.7.23affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-284: The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References