Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-20370
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.1, 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 user who holds a role that contains the high-privilege capability `change_authentication`, could send multiple LDAP bind requests to a specific internal endpoint, resulting in high server CPU usage, which could potentially lead to a denial of service (DoS) until the Splunk Enterprise instance is restarted. See https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/define-roles-on-the-splunk-platform-with-capabilities and https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/use-ldap-as-an-authentication-scheme/configure-ldap-with-splunk-web#cfe47e31_007f_460d_8b3d_8505ffc3f0dd__Configure_LDAP_with_Splunk_Web for more information.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 20.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 4.9
Products affected by CVE-2025-20370
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:10.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk:9.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.100
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.106
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.107
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.108
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.111
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.113
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.118
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.119
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.121
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.2.2406.122
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.100
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.101
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.103
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.104
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.107
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.111
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.112
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.113
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.114
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2408.117
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2411
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2411.102
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2411.103
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2411.104
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cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_cloud_platform:9.3.2411.107