CVE-2026-76268: Splunk Enterprise

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.3 and 10.2.7, an unauthenticated user with network access to the Patroni Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API) on a search head cluster member could execute attacker-controlled operating-system commands. The vulnerability is possible because this interface does not require authentication for critical configuration operations. For more information see Sidecar configuration settings (https://help.splunk.com/en/data-management/splunk-enterprise-admin-manual/10.2/splunk-sidecars/sidecar-configuration-settings) in the Splunk documentation. Splunk Enterprise versions 10.0.x and 9.4.x are not affected.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk Enterprise: from 10.4, before 10.4.3 (fixed in 10.4.3); from 10.2, before 10.2.7 (fixed in 10.2.7)

Published 2026-10-07. Last modified 2026-10-09.