CVE-2025-20298

8.0 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.0) in splunk universal forwarder. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.0 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-732
Published: 2025-06-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

splunk:universal_forwarder

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-0602

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