Splunk Nmap Scanner up to 3.0.14 Scripting Engine privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Splunk Nmap Scanner up to 3.0.14 and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Scripting Engine. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-76372. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Splunk Nmap Scanner up to 3.0.14 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Scripting Engine. 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, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Nmap Scanner versions below 3.0.15, a user who holds a role that can edit, create, or run playbooks in Splunk SOAR could run the scan network action in a Safe Mode playbook while that action is listed as read-only, which could allow for command execution or other changes on a target system through Nmap Scripting Engine scripts. The vulnerability is possible because the Nmap Scanner connector action manifest classifies the scan network action as read-only even though the action accepts script parameters that can perform write operations. For more information see Manage settings for a playbook in Splunk SOAR (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-2026-76372 since 08/19/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. 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 3.0.15 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Log Management Software

Vendor

• Splunk

Name

• Nmap Scanner

Version

• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9
• 3.0.10
• 3.0.11
• 3.0.12
• 3.0.13
• 3.0.14

License

• free

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