CVE-2026-20163

7.2 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.2) in splunk. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 execute arbitrary shell commands using the `unarchive_cmd` parameter for the `/splunkd/__upload/indexing/preview` REST endpoint.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.2 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-77
Published: 2026-03-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

splunk:splunk
splunk:splunk_cloud_platform

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-0302

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