CVE-2025-20388 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2025-20388

Blind Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) through Distributed Search Peers in Splunk Enterprise

Vulnerability Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.1, 9.4.6, 9.3.8, and 9.2.10, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.1.2507.4, 10.0.2503.7, and 9.3.2411.116, a user who holds a role that contains the high privilege capability `change_authentication` could enumerate internal IP addresses and network ports when adding new search peers to a Splunk search head in a distributed environment.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Mr Hack (try_to_hack) Santiago Lopez

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform
Vulnerable Versions:
10.0, 9.4, 9.3, 9.2, 10.1.2507, 10.0.2503, 9.3.2411

Timeline

Official Publish: December 3rd, 2025
Last Modified: December 3rd, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-918

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection
T1046 Network Service Discovery
Discovery