# CVE-2025-20230: Missing Access Control and Incorrect Ownership of Data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections in the Splunk Secure Gateway App > CVE-2025-20230: Missing Access Control and Incorrect Ownership of Data in App Key Value Store (KVStore) collections in the Splunk Secure Gateway App. CVSS 4.3 (CVSS 3.1). Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-20230 Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:41:08Z - Published: 2025-03-26 22:24 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:41 UTC · Assigner: cisco - CVSS: 4.3 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS: 0.33%, 25th percentile (scored 2026-10-25) - CISA KEV: no - CWE: 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.\\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 vendors and products - Splunk: Splunk Enterprise - Splunk: Splunk Secure Gateway ## Tracked companies - [Splunk](https://rewindex.com/company/splunk.md) ## References - [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20230) - [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20230) - [https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0307](https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0307) --- _Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_ --- Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-20230 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-20230.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-20230 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:15:44.269Z