Splunk Enterprise up to 9.4.15/10.0.10/10.2.7/10.4.3 protection mechanism

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Splunk Enterprise up to 9.4.15/10.0.10/10.2.7/10.4.3. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in protection mechanism. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-76301. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Splunk Enterprise up to 9.4.15/10.0.10/10.2.7/10.4.3. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, Cisco has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76301 are related to protection mechanism failure and are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-693.

The advisory is available at advisory.splunk.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-76301 since 08/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 9.4.16, 10.0.11, 10.2.8 or 10.4.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Log Management Software

Vendor

• Splunk

Name

• Enterprise

Version

• 9.4.0
• 9.4.1
• 9.4.2
• 9.4.3
• 9.4.4
• 9.4.5
• 9.4.6
• 9.4.7
• 9.4.8
• 9.4.9
• 9.4.10
• 9.4.11
• 9.4.12
• 9.4.13
• 9.4.14
• 9.4.15
• 10.0.0
• 10.0.1
• 10.0.2
• 10.0.3
• 10.0.4
• 10.0.5
• 10.0.6
• 10.0.7
• 10.0.8
• 10.0.9
• 10.0.10
• 10.2.0
• 10.2.1
• 10.2.2
• 10.2.3
• 10.2.4
• 10.2.5
• 10.2.6
• 10.2.7
• 10.4.0
• 10.4.1
• 10.4.2
• 10.4.3

License

• commercial

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