🛡️ CVE-2025-20324
🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.2, 9.3.5, 9.2.7, and 9.1.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.104, 9.3.2408.113, and 9.2.2406.119, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could create or overwrite [system source type](https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/get-started/get-data-in/9.2/configure-source-types/create-source-types) configurations by sending a specially-crafted payload to the `/servicesNS/nobody/search/admin/sourcetypes/` REST endpoint on the Splunk management port.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-07
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-07-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
splunk 9.4.0 9.4.2
splunk-cloud-platform 9.3.2411 9.3.2411.104

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