CVE-2026-76338: Splunk

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.2, 10.2.6, 10.0.9, and 9.4.14, an unauthenticated user who has access to a trusted distributed search private key could forge an administrative session token, access all relevant data, affect system integrity, and disrupt service availability. The vulnerability is possible because the distributed search authentication token endpoint does not require a signed request to identify a configured search peer, allowing the request to fall back to shared local key material. For more information see About distributed search (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/distributed-search/10.4/overview-of-distributed-search/about-distributed-search) and authentication.conf (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/admin-manual/10.4/configuration-file-reference/10.4.2-configuration-file-reference/authentication.conf) in Splunk documentation.

Affected products

• Splunk Splunk: from 9.4.0, before 9.4.14 (fixed in 9.4.14); from 10.0.0, before 10.0.9 (fixed in 10.0.9); from 10.2.0, before 10.2.6 (fixed in 10.2.6); from 10.4.0, before 10.4.2 (fixed in 10.4.2)

Published 2026-08-19. Last modified 2026-08-27.