CVE-2025-20298

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 22 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.29% (22nd) EPSS

CVSS 8 · high

Is it mine?

16 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

In Universal Forwarder for Windows versions below 9.4.2, 9.3.4, 9.2.6, and 9.1.9, a new installation of or an upgrade to an affected version can result in incorrect permissions assignment in the Universal Forwarder for Windows Installation directory (by default, C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder). This lets non-administrator users on the machine access the directory and all its contents.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.18highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · psirt@cisco.com USexploitability 2.1 · impact 5.9

v3.17.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-732US

affected products (16)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Splunk Splunk Enterprise <9.1.9all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <9.2.6all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <9.3.4all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <9.4.2all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 9.1.9cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 9.2.6cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 9.3.4cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 9.4.2cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk/UniversalForwarder for Windows9.1 → 9.1.9enisa_euvdEU
Splunk Splunk/UniversalForwarder for Windows9.2 → 9.2.6enisa_euvdEU
Splunk Splunk/UniversalForwarder for Windows9.3 → 9.3.4enisa_euvdEU
Splunk Splunk/UniversalForwarder for Windows9.4 → 9.4.2enisa_euvdEU
splunk universal forwarder9.1.0 → 9.1.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
splunk universal forwarder9.2.0 → 9.2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
splunk universal forwarder9.3.0 → 9.3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
splunk universal forwarder9.4.0 → 9.4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-1219Splunk Splunk Enterprise: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-06-02csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Splunk Splunk Enterprise ausnutzen, um einen Cross-Site Scripting Angriff durchzuführen, und um seine Rechte zu erweitern.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-06-02modified 2026-06-17

references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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