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CVE-2025-20298

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
02/06/2025
Last modified:
04/08/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.00 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
8.00
Severity 3.x
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 9.1.0 (including) 9.1.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 9.2.0 (including) 9.2.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 9.3.0 (including) 9.3.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 9.4.0 (including) 9.4.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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