Splunk SOAR up to 8.5.x Playbook History privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Splunk SOAR up to 8.5.x. It has been declared as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Playbook History. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-76368. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Splunk SOAR up to 8.5.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Playbook History. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In Splunk SOAR versions below 8.6.0, a user who holds a role that contains the playbooks:view permission could view metadata about a playbook repository that they are not authorized to view. The vulnerability is possible because Playbook History does not check repository permissions before returning playbook revision metadata. For more information see Manage roles and permissions in Splunk SOAR (Cloud) (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-soar/soar-cloud/administer-soar-cloud/manage-your-splunk-soar-cloud-users-and-accounts/manage-roles-and-permissions-in-splunk-soar-cloud) and Manage settings for a playbook in Splunk SOAR (Cloud) (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-soar/soar-cloud/build-playbooks/manage-playbooks-and-playbook-settings/manage-settings-for-a-playbook-in-splunk-soar-cloud) in the Splunk documentation.

The advisory is available at advisory.splunk.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-76368 since 08/19/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 8.6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Log Management Software

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• Splunk

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• SOAR

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• 8.0
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 8.3
• 8.4
• 8.5

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• free

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