CVE-2025-20231: Splunk

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 run a search using the permissions of a higher-privileged user that could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.<br><br>The vulnerability requires the attacker to phish the victim by tricking them into initiating a request within their browser. The authenticated low-privileged user should not be able to exploit the vulnerability at will.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 9.1.0, before 9.1.8 (fixed in 9.1.8); from 9.2.0, before 9.2.5 (fixed in 9.2.5); from 9.3.0, before 9.3.3 (fixed in 9.3.3); version 9.4.0 only
• Splunk Splunk Secure Gateway: from 3.7.0, before 3.7.23 (fixed in 3.7.23); from 3.8.0, before 3.8.38 (fixed in 3.8.38)

Published 2025-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.