{"id":"CVE-2025-20229","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-20229","generatedAt":"2026-11-03T22:44:16.963Z","title":"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…","description":"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.","published":"2025-03-26T22:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:41:08.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@cisco.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-284"],"affected":["splunk/splunk","splunk/splunk cloud platform"],"epss":{"score":0.16021,"percentile":0.96913,"date":"2026-11-02","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 16.0%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0301","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@cisco.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20229","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}