Third-Party Package Updates in Splunk/UniversalForwarder Docker - June 2025

Advisory ID: SVD-2025-0608

CVE ID: Multiple

Published: 2025-06-23

Last Update: 2025-07-16

Description

Splunk remedied common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in Third Party Packages in the “splunk/universalforwarder“ Docker image with image tags “9.4.2“, “9.3.4“, “9.2.6“, “9.1.9“, and “latest“. Docker images with tags “9.4“, “9.3“, “9.2“, and “9.1“, also include these fixes.

Third Party packages remedied include the following:

PackageRemediationCVESeverity
Busybox1Package RemovedCVE-2023-42366Medium

1 Removed Busybox at /usr/bin/busybox.

Solution

Upgrade your “splunk/universalforwarder“ Docker image to the most up-to-date version using the Docker image with tag “latest“.

Depending on the version of your image or container, you can also upgrade using images with tags “9.4.2“, “9.3.4“, “9.2.6“, “9.1.9“ or higher, or, alternatively, with tags “9.4“, “9.3“, “9.2“, “9.1“ or higher.

Product Status

ProductBase VersionAffected VersionFix Version
splunk/universalforwarder9.49.4.19.4.2
splunk/universalforwarder9.39.3.0 to 9.3.39.3.4
splunk/universalforwarder9.29.2.0 to 9.2.59.2.6
splunk/universalforwarder9.19.1.0 to 9.1.89.1.9

Severity

For the CVEs in this list, Splunk adopted the severity rating that the vendor published.

Changelog

  • 2025-07-16: Removed Golang CVEs. For details, refer to SVD-2025-0604.