CVE-2026-20251

Remote Code Execution through Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Splunk Secure Gateway

Severity
High 8.8
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.322
98.2th percentile
Discovered by
Not disclosed
Published
Jun 10, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.4, 10.0.7, 9.4.12, and 9.3.13, Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.3.2512.12, 10.2.2510.14, 10.1.2507.22, and 9.3.2411.132, and Splunk Secure Gateway versions below 3.10.6, 3.9.20, and 3.8.67, a low-privileged user that does not hold the 'admin' or 'power' Splunk roles could perform a Remote Code Execution (RCE) through the Splunk Secure Gateway app.<br><br>The Remote Code Execution is possible because of unsafe deserialization of App Key Value Store (KV Store) data through the ‘jsonpickle’ Python library, which reconstructs arbitrary Python objects from specially crafted JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) without adequate validation.

Weakness: CWE-502

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Splunk Cloud Platform SIEM & Log Management cna-assigner
Cisco Splunk Enterprise SIEM & Log Management cna-assigner
Cisco Splunk Secure Gateway SIEM & Log Management cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (3)
  • Splunk · Splunk Enterprise
  • Splunk · Splunk Cloud Platform
  • Splunk · Splunk Secure Gateway

Credit

M Mahdan Argya Syarif (0xbeludan)

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