CVE-2025-20230

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 edit and delete other user data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections that the Splunk Secure Gateway app created. This is due to missing access control and incorrect ownership of the data in those KVStore collections.<br><br>In the affected versions, the `nobody` user owned the data in the KVStore collections. This meant that there was no specific owner assigned to the data in those collections.

CVSS v3.0 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0307	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_secure_gateway::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_secure_gateway::::::::

History

01 Aug 2025, 18:01

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CWE		NVD-CWE-noinfo
First Time		Splunk Splunk splunk Secure Gateway Splunk splunk
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_secure_gateway:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:::::enterprise:::*
References	~~() https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0307 -~~	() https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0307 - Vendor Advisory
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~4.3~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 6.5

26 Mar 2025, 23:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-03-26 23:15

Updated : 2025-08-01 18:01

NVD link : CVE-2025-20230

Mitre link : CVE-2025-20230

JSON object : View

Products Affected

splunk

splunk
splunk_secure_gateway

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo CWE-284

Improper Access Control

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