CVE-2025-20300 (GCVE-0-2025-20300)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-07 17:47 – Updated: 2025-07-08 13:37
VLAI?
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).
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.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Splunk Splunk Enterprise Affected: 9.4 , < 9.4.2 (custom)
Affected: 9.3 , < 9.3.5 (custom)
Affected: 9.2 , < 9.2.6 (custom)
Affected: 9.1 , < 9.1.9 (custom)
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    Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform Affected: 9.3.2411 , < 9.3.2411.103 (custom)
Affected: 9.3.2408 , < 9.3.2408.112 (custom)
Affected: 9.2.2406 , < 9.2.2406.119 (custom)
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Credits
Anton (therceman)
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