Medium severity · published Oct 1, 2025
CVE-2025-20369
Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) through Dashboard label field on Splunk Enterprise
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SC
Splunk Cloud Platform · Splunk
9.3.2411 before 9.3.2411.108; 9.3.2408 before 9.3.2408.118; 9.2.2406 before 9.2.2406.123 · source: vendor, NVD
SE
Splunk Enterprise · Splunk
10.0 before 10.0.0; 9.4 before 9.4.4; 9.3 before 9.3.6; 9.2 before 9.2.8 · source: vendor
SP
Splunk · Splunk
9.2.0 before 9.2.8; 9.3.0 before 9.3.6; 9.4.0 before 9.4.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20369
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20369
Vendor Advisory
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1004
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