CVE-2025-20231 (GCVE-0-2025-20231)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-26 21:45
Modified
2025-03-28 03:55
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-532 - Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 9.4   < 9.4.1
Version: 9.3   < 9.3.3
Version: 9.2   < 9.2.5
Version: 9.1   < 9.1.8
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   Splunk Splunk Secure Gateway Version: 3.8   < 3.8.38
Version: 3.7   < 3.7.23
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