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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-10-10 | Published 2025-10-01 | Updated 2025-10-01 | Assigner cisco




MEDIUM: 4.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Problem types

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.

Product status

10.0 before 10.0.0
affected

9.4 before 9.4.4
affected

9.3 before 9.3.6
affected

9.2 before 9.2.8
affected

9.3.2411 before 9.3.2411.108
affected

9.3.2408 before 9.3.2408.118
affected

9.2.2406 before 9.2.2406.123
affected

Credits

Eric LaMothe, Splunk

References

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

cve.org (CVE-2025-20369)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-20369)

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