CVE-2025-20300 (GCVE-0-2025-20300)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-07 17:47
Modified
2025-07-08 13:37
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-863 - The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.2, 9.3.5, 9.2.6, and 9.1.9 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.103, 9.3.2408.112, and 9.2.2406.119, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles, and has read-only access to a specific alert, could suppress that alert when it triggers. See [Define alert suppression groups to throttle sets of similar alerts](https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/alert-and-respond/alerting-manual/9.4/manage-alert-trigger-conditions-and-throttling/define-alert-suppression-groups-to-throttle-sets-of-similar-alerts).
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Version: 9.4   < 9.4.2
Version: 9.3   < 9.3.5
Version: 9.2   < 9.2.6
Version: 9.1   < 9.1.9
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Version: 9.3.2408   < 9.3.2408.112
Version: 9.2.2406   < 9.2.2406.119
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