CVE-2025-20229

high · 8

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.3, 9.2.5, and 9.1.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2408.104, 9.2.2406.108, 9.2.2403.114, and 9.1.2312.208, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could perform a Remote Code Execution (RCE) through a file upload to the "$SPLUNK_HOME/var/run/splunk/apptemp" directory due to missing authorization checks.

CVSS

16.0%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

97th

EPSS percentile

2025-03-26

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
splunk	splunk	>= 9.1.0, < 9.1.8
splunk	splunk	>= 9.2.0, < 9.2.5
splunk	splunk	>= 9.3.0, < 9.3.3
splunk	splunk	9.4.0
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 9.1.2312, < 9.1.2312.208
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 9.2.2403, < 9.2.2403.114
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 9.2.2406.100, < 9.2.2406.108
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 9.3.2408.100, < 9.3.2408.104

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0301

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-20229