CVE-2025-20300

Published Jul 7, 2025

Last updated 9 months ago

CVSS medium 4.3

Overview

Description
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).
Source
psirt@cisco.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
splunk, splunk_cloud_platform

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
4.3
Impact score
1.4
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

psirt@cisco.com
CWE-863

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

  1. CVE-2025-20300 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-privil… https://t.co/1q5PIp2kZu

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Configurations

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References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.