CVE-2025-20369 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-20369: Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) through Dashboard label field on Splunk Enterprise

Vendor Splunk
Product Splunk Enterprise
Weakness CWE-776
Published October 1, 2025
Last update October 1, 2025
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CVSS base score

4.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 1, 2025 CVE published
October 1, 2025 Record updated