CVE-2025-20297 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.2, 9.3.4 and 9.2.6, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.102, 9.3.2408.111 and 9.2.2406.118, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a malicious payload through the pdfgen/render REST endpoint that could result in execution of unauthorized JavaScript code in the browser of a user.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Splunk	Splunk Cloud Platform Splunk Enterprise

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References

Link	Providers
https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0601

History

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.2, 9.3.4 and 9.2.6, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.102, 9.3.2408.111 and 9.2.2406.118, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a malicious payload through the pdfgen/render REST endpoint that could result in execution of unauthorized JavaScript code in the browser of a user.
Title		Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) on Splunk Enterprise through dashboard PDF generation component
Weaknesses		CWE-79
References		https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0601
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2025-06-02T17:14:02.301Z

Updated: 2025-06-02T17:25:38.664Z

Reserved: 2024-10-10T19:15:13.252Z

Link: CVE-2025-20297

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-02T17:25:33.818Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-06-02T18:15:23.360

Modified: 2025-06-04T14:54:53.980

Link: CVE-2025-20297

Redhat

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