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High 8.1Published Aug 19, 2026

CVE-2026-76354Path Traversal through Search Head Clustering in Splunk Enterprise

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It affects Splunk Enterprise and 1 other product. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14, a user who does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could affect system integrity and availability by sending a crafted Representational State Transfer (REST) API request that deletes or temporarily overwrites files writable by the user account running Splunk Enterprise processes on a non-captain search head cluster member. The vulnerability is possible because Search Head Clustering bundle replication does not validate the name of a replicated bundle file or neutralize NUL bytes before constructing the member bundle path. For more information see About search head clustering (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/distributed-search/10.4/overview-of-search-head-clustering/about-search-head-clustering), Define roles on the Splunk platform with capabilities (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.4/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/define-roles-on-the-splunk-platform-with-capabilities), and Secure Splunk Enterprise service accounts (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/9.0/install-splunk-enterprise-securely/secure-splunk-enterprise-service-accounts) in the Splunk documentation.

CVSS
8.1 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-158
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
cisco
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Aug 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Splunk Splunk Enterprise
splunk:enterprise (from the name)
from 10.4 before 10.4.2; from 10.2 before 10.2.6; from 10.0 before 10.0.9; from 9.4 before 9.4.14
CNA record
splunk splunk
splunk:splunk
from 9.4.0 before 9.4.14; from 10.0.0 before 10.0.9; from 10.2.0 before 10.2.6; from 10.4.0 before 10.4.2
NVD

References

  • vendor-advisory

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