Cross-site request forgery in Splunk Enterprise - CVE-2026-76297
Published: October 22, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU156981
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 1.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-76297
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to turn off all federated search providers and temporarily prevent federated searches from retrieving remote dataset data.
The vulnerability exists due to cross-site request forgery in the Splunk Web federated provider REST API when accepting GET requests for provider state changes. A remote attacker can phish a user with the edit_federated_providers capability into initiating a crafted browser request to turn off all federated search providers and temporarily disrupt remote dataset retrieval.
Affected software
Splunk Enterprise
How to mitigate CVE-2026-76297
Install security update from vendor's website.
Splunk Enterprise - addressed in versions 9.4.16, 10.0.11, 10.2.8, 10.4.4