Splunk vulnerabilities
We track 147 vulnerabilities in Splunk products across 29 products. 147 are rated high or critical, and 2 have been exploited in real attacks. The most recent was published on October 21, 2026.
Latest Splunk vulnerabilities
- 7.2 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.0, 10.0.4, 9.4.9, and 9.3.10, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.2.2510.5, 10.0.2503.12, 10.1.2507.16, and 9.3.2411.124, a user who holds a role that contains the high-privilege capability `edit_cmd` could exec
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Server-Side Request Forgery
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.1, 9.4.4, 9.3.6 and 9.2.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.109, 9.3.2408.119 and 9.2.2406.122, an unauthenticated attacker could trigger a blind server-side request forgery (SSRF) potentially letting a
- 7.3 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Path Traversal: '.../...//'
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.4.3, 9.3.5, 9.2.7 and 9.1.10, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.107, 9.3.2408.117, and 9.2.2406.121, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could craft a malicious payl
- 8.0 High severity
Splunk/UniversalForwarder for Windows: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
In Universal Forwarder for Windows versions below 9.4.2, 9.3.4, 9.2.6, and 9.1.9, a new installation of or an upgrade to an affected version can result in incorrect permissions assignment in the Universal Forwarder for Windows Installation directory (by defaul
- 8.0 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Access Control
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.3, 9.2.5, and 9.1.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2408.104, 9.2.2406.108, 9.2.2403.114, and 9.1.2312.208, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could perform a Remot
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.2, 9.2.4, and 9.1.7, and versions below 3.4.261 and 3.7.13 of the Splunk Secure Gateway app on Splunk Cloud Platform, a low-privileged user that does not hold the “admin“ or “power“ Splunk roles could perform a Remote Co
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.2, 9.2.4, and 9.1.7 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2408.101, 9.2.2406.106, 9.2.2403.111, and 9.1.2312.206, an SPL command can potentially disclose sensitive information. The vulnerability requires the explo
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.2.3 and 9.1.6, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could perform a Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to an insecure session storage configuration.
- 8.0 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6, a low-privileged user that does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could write a file to the Windows system root directory, which has a default location in the Windows System32
- 8.1 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312, an admin user could store and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the browser context of another Splunk user through the conf-web/settings REST end
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
In Splunk Enterprise on Windows versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10, an attacker could perform a path traversal on the /modules/messaging/ endpoint in Splunk Enterprise on Windows. This vulnerability should only affect Splunk Enterprise on Windows.
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Function Call With Incorrectly Specified Argument Value
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10, a low-privileged user that does not hold the admin or power Splunk roles could cause a Remote Code Execution through an external lookup that references the “splunk_archiver“ application.
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 on Windows, an authenticated user could execute a specially crafted query that they could then use to serialize untrusted data. The attacker could use the query to execute arbitrary code.
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312.109 and 9.1.2308.207, an authenticated user could create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The authenticated user could use t
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: NULL Pointer Dereference
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.2, 9.1.5, and 9.0.10 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.1.2312.109 and 9.1.2308.207, an attacker could trigger a null pointer reference on the cluster/config REST endpoint, which could result in a crash of the Sp
- 8.1 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.1, 9.1.4, and 9.0.9, the Dashboard Examples Hub lacks protections for risky SPL commands. This could let attackers bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands in the Hub. The vulnerability would require the attacker to phis
- 7.2 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.2.1, 9.1.4, and 9.0.9, the software potentially exposes authentication tokens during the token validation process. This exposure happens when either Splunk Enterprise runs in debug mode or the JsonWebToken component has be
- 7.2 High severity
Splunk Add-on Builder: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
In Splunk Add-on Builder versions below 4.1.4, the application writes user session tokens to its internal log files when you visit the Splunk Add-on Builder or when you build or edit a custom app or add-on.
- 8.8 High severity
In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.0.8 and 9.1.3, Splunk Enterprise does not…
In Splunk Enterprise for Windows versions below 9.0.8 and 9.1.3, Splunk Enterprise does not correctly sanitize path input data. This results in the unsafe deserialization of untrusted data from a separate disk partition on the machine. This vulnerability only
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: XML Injection
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.7 and 9.1.2, Splunk Enterprise does not safely sanitize extensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT) that users supply. This means that an attacker can upload malicious XSLT which can result in remote code execu
- 8.6 High severity
Splunk ITSI: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
In Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) versions below below 4.13.3, 4.15.3, or 4.17.1, a malicious actor can inject American National Standards Institute (ANSI) escape codes into Splunk ITSI log files that, when a vulnerable terminal application reads them,
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can create an external lookup that calls a legacy internal function. The attacker can use this internal function to insert code into the Splunk platform installation directory. From ther
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can exploit an absolute path traversal to execute arbitrary code that is located on a separate disk.
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
In Splunk Enterprise versions earlier than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, a dynamic link library (DLL) that ships with Splunk Enterprise references an insecure path for the OPENSSLDIR build definition. An attacker can abuse this reference and subsequently install m
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can execute a specially crafted query that they can then use to serialize untrusted data. The attacker can use the query to execute arbitrary code.
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to perform a denial of service (DoS) against the Splunk Enterprise instance.
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemo
- 7.8 High severity
Splunk SOAR (On-premises): Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Splunk SOAR versions lower than 6.1.0 are indirectly affected by a potential vulnerability accessed through the user’s terminal. A third party can send Splunk SOAR a maliciously crafted web request containing special ANSI characters to cause log file poisoning
- 8.1 High severity
Splunk App for Lookup File Editing: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
In the Splunk App for Lookup File Editing versions below 4.0.1, a low-privileged user can, with a specially crafted web request, trigger a path traversal exploit that can then be used to read and write to restricted areas of the Splunk installation directory.
- 9.9 Critical severity
Splunk App for Stream: Improper Privilege Management
In Splunk App for Stream versions below 8.1.1, a low-privileged user could use a vulnerability in the streamfwd process within the Splunk App for Stream to escalate their privileges on the machine that runs the Splunk Enterprise instance, up to and including t
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Interpretation Conflict
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user can trigger an HTTP response splitting vulnerability with the ‘rest’ SPL command that lets them potentially access other
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Authorization
In versions of Splunk Enterprise below 9.0.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform below version 9.0.2303.100, a low-privileged user who holds a role that has the ‘edit_user’ capability assigned to it can escalate their privileges to that of the admin
- 8.8 High severity
https://github.com/curl/curl: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A path traversal vulnerability exists in curl <8.0.0 SFTP implementation causes the tilde (~) character to be wrongly replaced when used as a prefix in the first path element, in addition to its intended use as the first element to indicate a path relative to
- 8.8 High severity
https://github.com/curl/curl: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
A vulnerability in input validation exists in curl <8.0 during communication using the TELNET protocol may allow an attacker to pass on maliciously crafted user name and "telnet options" during server negotiation. The lack of proper input scrubbing allows an a
- 9.1 Critical severity
https://github.com/curl/curl: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 that could cause HSTS functionality fail when multiple URLs are requested serially. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS instead of usingan insecure
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Uncaught Exception
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, an improperly-formatted ‘INGEST_EVAL’ parameter in a Field Transformation crashes the Splunk daemon (splunkd).
- 8.8 High severity
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘map’ search processing…
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘map’ search processing language (SPL) command lets a search bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands. The vulnerability requires a higher privileged user to initiate a request within their bro
- 8.8 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘display.page.search.patterns.sensitivity’ search parameter lets a search bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands. The vulnerability requires a higher privileged user to initiate a request wit
- 8.0 High severity
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘pivot’ search processing…
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘pivot’ search processing language (SPL) command lets a search bypass SPL safeguards for risky commands using a saved search job. The vulnerability requires an authenticated user to craft the s
- 7.5 High severity
https://github.com/curl/curl: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
A vulnerability exists in curl <7.87.0 HSTS check that could be bypassed to trick it to keep using HTTP. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS instead of using an insecure clear-text HTTP step even when HTTP is provided in the URL. Howeve