Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privilege Splunk user
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DeliveryEnumerate Secure Gateway KV Store collections
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ExploitIssue unauthorized write to alert/recipient data
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ExecutionPoison mobile-device recipient entries
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ImpactAlert/subscription workflow consumes tampered data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V13 - Configuration Permission assignment review
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated Splunk account that does NOT hold the 'admin' or 'sc_admin' role, plus a deployment running Splunk Secure Gateway (the app backing the Splunk mobile experience) on an affected Splunk Enterprise version. The specific precondition is that the Secure Gateway alert and mobile-device recipient KV Store collections are configured with unrestricted write access rather than restricting writes to authorized Secure Gateway workflows - the default/affected state. Limiting factors: exploitation is impossible without valid credentials (PR:L), is scoped only to Secure Gateway alert/subscription data (not arbitrary Splunk data or OS-level access), and environments that do not deploy Splunk Secure Gateway are not exposed. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity broken-access-control flaw (CVSS 6.3, CWE-732) rather than a top-priority emergency. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L shows network reach and low attack complexity, but it explicitly requires low-level authentication (PR:L) - any valid non-admin Splunk user, not an anonymous attacker. Impact is capped at Low across confidentiality, integrity, and availability with an unchanged scope, reflecting that the attacker can only tamper with Splunk Secure Gateway alert and mobile-device recipient data in specific KV Store collections, not seize full control. No EPSS score was provided in the input, there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code is referenced, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization. The realistic risk is an insider or a compromised low-privilege account abusing trust in the alerting/subscription pipeline (e.g., redirecting or poisoning mobile alerts), which is meaningful in high-trust SOC environments but far from the drive-by RCE that the AV:N label alone might suggest. NOTE: the input Tag 'Information Disclosure' conflicts with the actual defect, which is unauthorized WRITE/modification (integrity), per CWE-732 and the description - treat the tag as suspect. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A legitimate but low-privileged Splunk user (lacking the admin or sc_admin role) authenticates and issues KV Store REST API writes to the Splunk Secure Gateway collections that store alert and mobile-device recipient data. Because those collections grant unrestricted write access instead of limiting writes to authorized Secure Gateway workflows, the user tampers with recipient entries so that later alert and subscription workflows deliver, suppress, or misroute mobile notifications. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires a valid account on the Splunk instance. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 07, 2026
Improper write restrictions in the App Key Value Store (KV Store) collections used by Splunk Secure Gateway let any authenticated Splunk user who does not hold the 'admin' or 'sc_admin' role modify alert and mobile-device recipient records, which downstream alerting and subscription workflows then consume. The flaw affects Splunk Enterprise below 10.4.3, 10.2.7, 10.0.10, and 9.4.15, and Splunk Secure Gateway below 3.10.11, 3.9.25, and 3.8.72, with an assessed CVSS of 6.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L, CWE-732). No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and there is no KEV confirmation of active exploitation; risk is concentrated in deployments that actually run Secure Gateway, and impact is bounded to the integrity and confidentiality of Secure Gateway alert/subscription data rather than arbitrary Splunk data or host-level access.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Splunk Enterprise to 10.4.3, 10.2.7, 10.0.10, or 9.4.15 (whichever matches your supported branch) and update Splunk Secure Gateway to 3.10.11, 3.9.25, or 3.8.72 respectively; see the vendor advisory SVD-2026-1001 (https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-1001) for the authoritative fixed versions and any per-release notes. Because the defect is an incorrect permission assignment, an interim mitigation is to remove write access to the Secure Gateway alert and mobile-device recipient KV Store collections from all roles that are not dedicated to authorized Secure Gateway workflows, using Splunk role-based access control and the KV Store collection endpoint permissions documented in the Splunk manual (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/admin-manual/10.4/administer-the-app-key-value-store/about-the-app-key-value-store); the trade-off is that legitimate non-admin Secure Gateway administration performed under those roles will also be blocked until the patch is applied, so verify that only the Secure Gateway service account retains write capability. Additionally, restricting the KV Store REST endpoint surface (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/leverage-rest-apis/rest-api-reference/10.4/kv-store-endpoints/kv-store-endpoint-descriptions) and reviewing role assignments per https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.4/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/about-configuring-role-based-user-access reduces the population of accounts able to reach these collections, at the cost of narrowing self-service access for power users. If the Splunk mobile experience is not required, uninstalling or disabling Splunk Secure Gateway eliminates the exposure entirely, but it disables mobile alerting, device registration and related subscription features for all users; as always, audit the affected KV Store collections for unexpected recipient or alert modifications before and after remediation, since tampering may already have occurred under legitimate credentials.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The App Key Value Store is Splunk's MongoDB-backed NoSQL store that platform components and apps use for structured persistence, exposed through REST KV Store endpoints. Splunk Secure Gateway maintains KV Store collections that hold alert definitions and mobile-device recipient registrations for the Splunk mobile experience; alert and subscription workflows later read these collections to decide what gets sent and to whom. CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) is the root cause here: the affected collections were provisioned with unrestricted write access, so any authenticated principal with a valid Splunk session can issue KV Store write operations against them instead of writes being constrained to authorized Secure Gateway service workflows. Per the independent assessment, the only prerequisite beyond a valid low-privileged account (no 'admin' or 'sc_admin' role) is that the deployment runs Splunk Secure Gateway on an affected Splunk Enterprise build, since installations without that app do not expose the vulnerable collections. The CVSS vector confirms network reachability (AV:N), low privileges (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N) and a scope-unchanged impact that is uniformly low across confidentiality, integrity and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L) - consistent with tampering limited to Secure Gateway alert and recipient metadata (for example, redirecting or suppressing notifications) rather than code execution or broad data compromise.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Network-reachable REST KV Store with low complexity but requires a valid low-privilege account (PR:L); primary impact is tampering with recipient data (I:L), with limited read/availability effects on alert workflows (C:L/A:L).
Primary rating from Vendor (cisco).
CVSS VectorVendor: cisco
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.3, 10.2.7, 10.0.10, and 9.4.15, and Splunk Secure Gateway versions below 3.10.11, 3.9.25, and 3.8.72, an authenticated user who does not hold the "admin" or "sc_admin" Splunk roles could modify Splunk Secure Gateway alert and mobile-device recipient data in App Key Value Store (KV Store) collections that later alert and subscription workflows use. The vulnerability is possible because the affected collections allow unrestricted write access instead of limiting writes to authorized Splunk Secure Gateway workflows. For more information see About the app key value store (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/admin-manual/10.4/administer-the-app-key-value-store/about-the-app-key-value-store), KV store endpoint descriptions (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/leverage-rest-apis/rest-api-reference/10.4/kv-store-endpoints/kv-store-endpoint-descriptions), and About configuring role-based user access (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.4/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/about-configuring-role-based-user-access) in the Splunk documentation.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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