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How the CVE Works
CVE-2025-20226 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise and Cloud Platform where low-privileged users can execute risky SPL commands with elevated privileges. The attack requires phishing a higher-privileged user to initiate a malicious request through the “/services/streams/search” endpoint. By crafting a specially saved search with dangerous commands in the “q” parameter, an attacker bypasses SPL safeguards. The vulnerability exploits improper permission validation when processing streamed searches, allowing command execution under the victim’s privileges rather than the attacker’s.
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Platform: Splunk Enterprise/Cloud
Version: <9.4.1, <9.3.3, <9.2.5
Vulnerability: Privilege Escalation
Severity: Medium
Date: 03/26/2025
Prediction: Patch by 04/30/2025
What Undercode Say
| savedsearch name="malicious_search" q="| risky_command" /services/streams/search?q=malicious_payload
How Exploit
1. Attacker saves malicious search
2. Phishes admin to trigger it
3. Commands execute as admin
Protection from this CVE
1. Upgrade to patched versions
2. Restrict saved searches
3. Implement phishing protections
Impact
1. Unauthorized command execution
2. Data exfiltration potential
3. System compromise risk
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Reported By: nvd.nist.gov
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