#VU116647 Resource exhaustion in Splunk Enterprise - CVE-2025-20370
Published: October 7, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU116647
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-20370
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Splunk Enterprise
Splunk Enterprise
Software vendor:
Splunk Inc.
Splunk Inc.
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing LDAP bind requests. A remote privileged user with "change_authentication" capability can initiate multiple LDAP bind requests to a specific internal endpoint and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.