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CVE-2025-20388: Blind Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) through Distributed Search Peers in Splunk Enterprise
- Severity: low (CVSS 2.7 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-12-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-918
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.
Affected products
- Splunk Enterprise: from 9.2.0 before 9.2.10; from 9.3.0 before 9.3.8; from 9.4.0 before 9.4.6; 10.0.0 — fixed in 9.2.10, 9.3.8, 9.4.6
- Splunk Cloud Platform: from 9.3.2411 before 9.3.2411.116; from 10.0.2503 before 10.0.2503.6; from 10.1.2507 before 10.1.2507.4 — fixed in 10.0.2503.6, 10.1.2507.4, 9.3.2411.116
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Splunk Enterprise 9.2.10, 9.3.8, 9.4.6; Splunk Cloud Platform 10.0.2503.6, 10.1.2507.4, 9.3.2411.116. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
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