XXE in Splunk Dashboard Tab Label Field
CVE-2025-20369 is an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability affecting Splunk Enterprise versions prior to 9.4.4, 9.3.6, and 9.2.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions prior to 9.3.2411.108, 9.3.2408.118, and 9.2.2406.123. According to the provided description, a low-privilege authenticated user who does not have the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles can inject XXE payloads through the dashboard tab label field. Successful exploitation can trigger XML parser processing of external entities, leading to denial-of-service conditions.
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An XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in Splunk via dashboard labels.
A medium-severity XXE injection vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform allowing low-privileged users to perform XXE attacks and potentially cause DoS.
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Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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