Improper Access Control in Splunk Enterprise

Description

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, Cisco has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76281 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-284.

Scores

No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Modified.

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.18% · top 93% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.

Weakness

• CWE-284: The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-284 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Splunk · Splunk Enterprise

  • affected 10.4 – < 10.4.3
  • affected 10.2 – < 10.2.7
  • affected 10.0 – < 10.0.10
  • affected 9.4 – < 9.4.15

What to do

Solution: Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to versions 10.4.3, 10.2.7, 10.0.10, and 9.4.15, or higher.

References (1)

• https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-1002 (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 27 Oct 2026, 20:08 UTC.