Higher-privilege risky command execution via saved searches
Published Mar 26, 2025 · Updated Mar 27, 2025
Improper access control in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform allows remote authenticated users to run risky saved searches. The /app/search/search endpoint accepts a saved-search identifier in its s parameter and runs the referenced risky command with a higher-privileged user's permissions, bypassing SPL safeguards. Exploitation requires a low-privileged account without the admin or power role and user interaction that causes a higher-privileged victim's browser to initiate the request; the published impact is sensitive-data disclosure.
Summary
What happened
Improper access control in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform allows remote authenticated users to run risky saved searches. The /app/search/search endpoint accepts a saved-search identifier in its s parameter and runs the referenced risky command with a higher-privileged user's permissions, bypassing SPL safeguards. Exploitation requires a low-privileged account without the admin or power role and user interaction that causes a higher-privileged victim's browser to initiate the request; the published impact is sensitive-data disclosure.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-20232
- Published
- Mar 26, 2025
- Updated
- Mar 27, 2025
- Vendor
- Splunk, Inc.
- Product
- Splunk Enterprise
- Classifications
- CWE-200, T1202
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 27, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=9.1 <9.1.8
- Affected versionversion=9.2 <9.2.5
- Affected versionversion=9.3 <9.3.3
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