What is CVE-2025-20369?

CVE-2025-20369 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2025-10-01.

How severe is CVE-2025-20369?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

XXE in Splunk

CVE-2025-20369

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 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 low privilege user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could perform an extensible markup language (XML) external entity (XXE) injection through the dashboard tab label field. The XXE injection has the potential to cause denial of service (DoS) attacks.

EPSS: 0.003 (20.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Splunk
Splunk Cloud Platform — versions 9.3.2411, 9.3.2408, 9.2.2406
Splunk Splunk_cloud_platform
Splunk Enterprise — versions 10.0, 9.4, 9.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

psirt@cisco.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-20369?: CVE-2025-20369 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Splunk, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2025-10-01.
How severe is CVE-2025-20369?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.