CVE-2025-20369

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

State: Published
Severity: 4.6 Medium
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Updated: Oct 1, 2025
Reserved: Oct 10, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	cisco

Weaknesses

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.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	10.0 to before 10.0.0Affected 9.4 to before 9.4.4Affected 9.3 to before 9.3.6Affected 9.2 to before 9.2.8Affected
Splunk Cloud PlatformSplunk	9.3.2411 to before 9.3.2411.108Affected 9.3.2408 to before 9.3.2408.118Affected 9.2.2406 to before 9.2.2406.123Affected

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1004

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