CVE-2025-20369

Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) through Dashboard label field on Splunk Enterprise

Severity
Medium 4.6
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.003
20.6th percentile
Discovered by
Not disclosed
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Assigned by cisco

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.

Weakness: CWE-776

Affected products

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Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Splunk · Splunk Enterprise
  • Splunk · Splunk Cloud Platform

Credit

Eric LaMothe, Splunk