CVE-2026-20298: Splunk

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.1, 10.2.5, 10.0.8, and 9.4.13, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.5.2605.0, 10.4.2604.6, 10.3.2512.15, 10.2.2510.18, and 10.1.2507.24, a low-privileged user that does not hold the 'admin' or 'power' Splunk roles could view stored credential hashes when they access the `/servicesNS/-/-/storage/passwords` REST endpoint through the `|rest` Search Processing Language (SPL) command.<br><br>The exposure happens because the `|rest` SPL command returns the `encr_password` field in the results of the `/servicesNS/-/-/storage/passwords` REST endpoint.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 9.4.0, before 9.4.13 (fixed in 9.4.13); from 10.0.0, before 10.0.8 (fixed in 10.0.8); from 10.2.0, before 10.2.5 (fixed in 10.2.5); version 10.4.0 only
• Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform: from 10.1.2507, before 10.1.2507.24 (fixed in 10.1.2507.24); from 10.2.2510, before 10.2.2510.18 (fixed in 10.2.2510.18); from 10.3.2512, before 10.3.2512.15 (fixed in 10.3.2512.15); from 10.4.2604, before 10.4.2604.6 (fixed in 10.4.2604.6)

Published 2026-07-15. Last modified 2026-07-24.