# CVE-2025-20369: Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) through Dashboard label field on Splunk Enterprise

> CVE-2025-20369: Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) through Dashboard label field on Splunk Enterprise. CVSS 4.6 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-20369
Last updated: 2026-10-18T21:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-10-01 16:07 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-18 21:10 UTC · Assigner: cisco
- CVSS: 4.6 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- EPSS: 0.31%, 24th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-776

## Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.4, 9.3.6, and 9.2.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.108, 9.3.2408.118 and 9.2.2406.123, a low privilege user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could perform an extensible markup language (XML) external entity (XXE) injection through the dashboard tab label field. The XXE injection has the potential to cause denial of service (DoS) attacks.

## Affected vendors and products

- Splunk: Splunk Cloud Platform
- Splunk: Splunk Enterprise

## Tracked companies

- [Splunk](https://rewindex.com/company/splunk.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20369)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20369)
- [https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1004](https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1004)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-20369 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-20369.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-20369 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:16:54.554Z