CVE-2025-20300

Improper Access Control Lets Low-Privilege Users Suppress Read-Only Alerts in Splunk Enterprise

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Jul 7, 2025
Updated
Jul 8, 2025
Reserved
Oct 10, 2024

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Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.2, 9.3.5, 9.2.6, and 9.1.9 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.103, 9.3.2408.112, and 9.2.2406.119, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles, and has read-only access to a specific alert, could suppress that alert when it triggers. See [Define alert suppression groups to throttle sets of similar alerts](https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/alert-and-respond/alerting-manual/9.4/manage-alert-trigger-conditions-and-throttling/define-alert-suppression-groups-to-throttle-sets-of-similar-alerts).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-863 The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk
  • 9.4 to before 9.4.2Affected
  • 9.3 to before 9.3.5Affected
  • 9.2 to before 9.2.6Affected
  • 9.1 to before 9.1.9Affected
Splunk Cloud PlatformSplunk
  • 9.3.2411 to before 9.3.2411.103Affected
  • 9.3.2408 to before 9.3.2408.112Affected
  • 9.2.2406 to before 9.2.2406.119Affected

References

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