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Splunk Enterprise EUVDEUVD-2026-63129

| CVE-2026-76322 HIGH
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
2026-08-19 cisco GHSA-pm89-cjjr-9g8x
8.0
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Attacker authenticates with valid 'user'-role account
  2. Delivery
    Craft Dashboard Studio dashboard embedding malicious SPL
  3. Exploit
    Deliver phishing link to higher-privileged victim user
  4. Execution
    Victim opens dashboard in browser
  5. Persist
    Attacker SPL dispatched within victim's authenticated session
  6. Impact
    Exfiltrate victim-accessible data or disrupt search availability

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

The attacker must hold a valid, authenticated Splunk 'user' role account on the target Splunk Enterprise instance - unauthenticated exploitation is not possible based on the PR:L CVSS metric. The victim must also be an authenticated Splunk user who is actively tricked into opening the attacker's crafted Dashboard Studio dashboard link in their browser; the victim cannot be forced to do so (UI:R is mandatory). The vulnerable surface is specifically the Dashboard Studio ds.search data source mechanism - instances that have disabled Dashboard Studio or do not permit 'user'-role accounts to create or share dashboards have no exposure. The vendor explicitly notes that the 'user' role cannot exploit this at will, meaning the attack cannot be automated or triggered without the social engineering step. Exploitation is further bounded by the victim's data scope: the attacker can only reach data the victim user is authorized to access.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 score of 8.0 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) places this in the high-severity band, but the required user interaction (UI:R) and mandatory low-privilege account (PR:L) meaningfully distinguish it from unauthenticated, zero-click exploits. The attack is socially engineered rather than automated, constraining mass exploitation. No EPSS data was included in the source intelligence, preventing quantification of probabilistic exploitation likelihood. The vulnerability does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog and no public PoC is referenced in any of the provided intelligence sources - both are absent from available data rather than confirmed absent. Real-world risk scales directly with the sensitivity of data indexed in the Splunk environment: in a security operations context where Splunk ingests authentication logs, EDR telemetry, or financial records, a successful attack could expose an attacker-controlled 'user' account to the victim's entire data scope. The unchanged scope (S:U) means the attacker cannot pivot beyond the victim's Splunk session. Priority should be proportional to the breadth of data access held by likely victim accounts.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An internal threat actor holding a low-privileged Splunk 'user' role crafts a Dashboard Studio dashboard embedding malicious SPL designed to enumerate indexed data and exfiltrate results to an attacker-controlled lookup or external destination. The attacker delivers the dashboard link via a convincing internal phishing message - posing as a shared report or operational dashboard - to a Splunk power user or admin. When the victim opens the link in their browser, the attacker's SPL executes silently within the victim's authenticated session, reading data the attacker's own account cannot access and potentially disrupting search availability for other users.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv2 – Aug 20, 2026

Dashboard Studio in Splunk Enterprise (below versions 9.4.14, 10.0.9, 10.2.6, and 10.4.2) allows a low-privileged 'user'-role account to inject attacker-controlled SPL queries that execute within the authenticated session of a different, potentially higher-privileged victim user. The root cause is Dashboard Studio's failure to consistently enforce app-visibility authorization boundaries before search query options reach the search dispatch layer - a CWE-862 Missing Authorization defect. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed; a vendor patch is available across all affected branches.

Earlier versions of this analysis (1)
v1 Aug 19, 2026 - 22:35 CVSS 6.7

Dashboard Studio in Splunk Enterprise allows a low-privileged user holding the built-in 'user' role to inject attacker-controlled SPL queries into a crafted dashboard that executes in the session context of another authenticated user who opens it. Affected versions span four maintained release branches: 10.4.x below 10.4.2, 10.2.x below 10.2.6, 10.0.x below 10.0.9, and 9.4.x below 9.4.14. Exploitation requires a social-engineering step to phish the victim into opening the dashboard, but a successful attack can expose the full scope of data the victim user can access and compromise search-based integrity and availability within Splunk. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to one of the following vendor-confirmed patched versions: 9.4.14, 10.0.9, 10.2.6, or 10.4.2, as detailed in the vendor advisory at https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-0801. If immediate patching is not feasible, reduce exposure by restricting which accounts are granted the 'user' Splunk role to only those with a confirmed operational need, shrinking the pool of potential attackers. Administrators can also restrict the ability of 'user'-role accounts to create, share, or distribute Dashboard Studio dashboards through role capability controls - this directly targets the delivery mechanism without disabling Dashboard Studio entirely. User education on scrutinizing internally shared dashboard links before opening them provides a secondary control with no operational cost. Disabling Dashboard Studio entirely is a high-impact workaround that eliminates the attack surface but removes a core product feature and should only be considered in environments with extreme data sensitivity where patching is unavailable.

Affected VersionsENISA

Splunk Enterprise 9.4 <9.4.14
Splunk Enterprise 10.4 <10.4.2
Splunk Enterprise 10.0 <10.0.9
Splunk Enterprise 10.2 <10.2.6

Affected Packages

euvd splunk_enterprise fix: 9.4.14, 10.0.9, 10.2.6, 10.4.2

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability (CWE-862: Missing Authorization) resides in Splunk Enterprise's Dashboard Studio component, specifically in the ds.search data source pipeline. Dashboard Studio is Splunk's modern declarative dashboard framework; it allows users to define visualizations driven by SPL queries attached to dashboard panels. The affected product (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:splunk:splunk_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) fails to enforce app-visibility authorization checks before passing dashboard search query options to the backend search dispatch. A 'user'-role principal - normally restricted to their authorized apps and data - can embed arbitrary SPL in a crafted dashboard. When a victim with broader data access opens that dashboard, the SPL executes with the victim's permissions, bypassing the authorization boundary that should prevent the 'user' role from reaching out-of-scope data sources. The Splunk documentation page for ds.search (create-search-based-visualizations-with-ds.search) is identified by the vendor as the relevant feature surface.

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Severity by source

Vendor (cisco) PRIMARY MEDIUM
NVD 8.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 8.0 HIGH

Low-privilege account required (PR:L), victim must actively open attacker link (UI:R), with full CIA impact against victim's data scope (C:H/I:H/A:H) and no cross-scope pivot.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (cisco).

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Severity Changed
Aug 20, 2026 - 13:52 NVD
MEDIUM HIGH
CVSS changed
Aug 20, 2026 - 13:52 NVD
6.7 (MEDIUM) 8.0 (HIGH)
Patch available
Aug 19, 2026 - 22:04 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 19, 2026 - 21:34 nvd
MEDIUM 6.7

DescriptionNVD

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14, a user who holds the "user" Splunk role could craft a Dashboard Studio dashboard that runs attacker-controlled Search Processing Language (SPL) for another authenticated user. The attacker-controlled SPL could access all relevant data and affect system integrity and availability. The vulnerability is possible because Dashboard Studio does not consistently enforce the expected app-visibility authorization boundary before dashboard search query options reach search dispatch. The vulnerability requires the attacker to phish the affected user by tricking them into initiating a request within their browser. The user who holds the "user" Splunk role should not be able to exploit the vulnerability at will. For more information see Create search-based visualizations with ds.search (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/create-dashboards-and-reports/dashboard-studio/10.4/use-data-sources/create-search-based-visualizations-with-ds.search) in the Splunk documentation.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Dashboard Studio in Splunk Enterprise versions prior to 9.4.14, 10.0.9, 10.2.6, and 10.4.2 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability (CWE-862) that allows authenticated low-privileged users to inject malicious SPL queries executing within higher-privileged user sessions, enabling unauthorized access to sensitive data. No public exploit identified at time of analysis. This directly threatens confidentiality and integrity of operational and security data across organizations relying on Splunk role-based access controls.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch. Interim mitigations if deployment extends beyond 7 days: restrict Dashboard Studio access to administrator roles only, enable comprehensive search query audit logging and establish monitoring for anomalous SPL patterns, enforce strict minimal-privilege role assignments, and consider disabling dashboard creation functionality until patches are deployed.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 81% exploitable
Prevalence
High
widely deployed enterprise SIEM/SOAR platform across large organizations
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

40
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +40
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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