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CVE-2025-20230: Missing Access Control and Incorrect Ownership of Data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections in the Splunk Secure Gateway App
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-284
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.1, 9.3.3, 9.2.5, and 9.1.8, and versions below 3.8.38 and 3.7.23 of the Splunk Secure Gateway app on Splunk Cloud Platform, a low-privileged user that does not hold the “admin“ or “power“ Splunk roles could edit and delete other user data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections that the Splunk Secure Gateway app created. This is due to missing access control and incorrect ownership of the data in those KVStore collections.<br><br>In the affected versions, the `nobody` user owned the data in the KVStore collections. This meant that there was no specific owner assigned to the data in those collections.
Affected products
- Splunk Enterprise: from 9.1.0 before 9.1.8; from 9.2.0 before 9.2.5; from 9.3.0 before 9.3.3; from 9.4.0 before 9.4.1 — fixed in 9.1.8, 9.2.5, 9.3.3, 9.4.1
- Splunk Secure Gateway: from 3.7.0 before 3.7.23; from 3.8.0 before 3.8.38 — fixed in 3.7.23, 3.8.38
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 9.1.8, 9.2.5, 9.3.3, 9.4.1; Splunk Secure Gateway 3.7.23, 3.8.38. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
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