Medium severity · published Mar 26, 2025
CVE-2025-20230
Missing Access Control and Incorrect Ownership of Data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections in the Splunk Secure Gateway App
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.1, 9.3.3, 9.2.5, and 9.1.8, and versions below 3.8.38 and 3.7.23 of the Splunk Secure Gateway app on Splunk Cloud Platform, a low-privileged user that does not hold the “admin“ or “power“ Splunk roles could edit and delete other user data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections that the Splunk Secure Gateway app created. This is due to missing access control and incorrect ownership of the data in those KVStore collections.<br><br>In the affected versions, the `nobody` user owned the data in the KVStore collections. This meant that there was no specific owner assigned to the data in those collections.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SE
Splunk Enterprise · Splunk
9.4 before 9.4.1; 9.3 before 9.3.3; 9.2 before 9.2.5; 9.1 before 9.1.8 · source: vendor
SS
Splunk Secure Gateway · Splunk
3.8 before 3.8.38; 3.7 before 3.7.23 · source: vendor, NVD
SP
Splunk · Splunk
9.1.0 before 9.1.8; 9.2.0 before 9.2.5; 9.3.0 before 9.3.3; 9.4.0 before 9.4.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20230
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20230
Vendor Advisory
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0307
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