CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-20231

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Mar 26, 2025 | Modified: Jul 21, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 run a search using the permissions of a higher-privileged user that could lead to disclosure of sensitive information.The vulnerability requires the attacker to phish the victim by tricking them into initiating a request within their browser. The authenticated low-privileged user should not be able to exploit the vulnerability at will.

Weakness

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Splunk Splunk 9.1.0 (including) 9.1.8 (excluding)
Splunk Splunk 9.2.0 (including) 9.2.5 (excluding)
Splunk Splunk 9.3.0 (including) 9.3.3 (excluding)
Splunk Splunk 9.4.0 (including) 9.4.0 (including)
Splunk_secure_gateway Splunk 3.7.0 (including) 3.7.23 (excluding)
Splunk_secure_gateway Splunk 3.8.0 (including) 3.8.38 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References