CVE-2025-20370 (GCVE-0-2025-20370)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 16:07 – Updated: 2025-10-01 17:36
VLAI?
Summary
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.1, 9.4.4, 9.3.6, and 9.2.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.108, 9.3.2408.118 and 9.2.2406.123, a user who holds a role that contains the high-privilege capability `change_authentication`, could send multiple LDAP bind requests to a specific internal endpoint, resulting in high server CPU usage, which could potentially lead to a denial of service (DoS) until the Splunk Enterprise instance is restarted. See https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/define-roles-on-the-splunk-platform-with-capabilities and https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/use-ldap-as-an-authentication-scheme/configure-ldap-with-splunk-web#cfe47e31_007f_460d_8b3d_8505ffc3f0dd__Configure_LDAP_with_Splunk_Web for more information.
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-400 - The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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| Splunk | Splunk Enterprise |
Affected:
10.0 , < 10.0.1
(custom)
Affected: 9.4 , < 9.4.4 (custom) Affected: 9.3 , < 9.3.6 (custom) Affected: 9.2 , < 9.2.8 (custom) |
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Credits
STÖK / Fredrik Alexandersson
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Nomenclature
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