CyberCVE

CVE-2026-20164

Sensitive Information Disclosure through Improper Access Control in Splunk Enterprise

Severity
Medium 6.5
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.002
13.6th percentile
Discovered by
Not disclosed
Published
Mar 11, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.0, 10.0.3, 9.4.9, and 9.3.10, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.2.2510.5, 10.1.2507.16, 10.0.2503.11, and 9.3.2411.123, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could access the `/splunkd/__raw/servicesNS/-/-/configs/conf-passwords` REST API endpoint, which exposes the hashed or plaintext password values that are stored in the passwords.conf configuration file due to improper access control. This vulnerability could allow for the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive credentials.

Weakness: CWE-200

Affected products

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Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Splunk · Splunk Enterprise
  • Splunk · Splunk Cloud Platform

Credit

Alex Hordijk (hordalex)

References