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CVE-2026-76297

Successful exploitation could temporarily prevent federated searches from retrieving data from remote datasets.

MEDIUM 4.2EPSS 0.11%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.4, 10.2.8, 10.0.11, and 9.4.16, an unauthenticated user could trick a user that holds a role with the edit_federated_providers capability into turning off all federated search providers. Successful exploitation could temporarily prevent federated searches from retrieving data from remote datasets. The vulnerability is possible because the federated provider Representational State Transfer (REST) API accepts GET requests for actions that change provider state. The vulnerability requires the attacker to phish the affected user by tricking them into initiating a request within their browser. The unauthenticated user should not be able to exploit the vulnerability at will. For more information see Run federated searches over remote Splunk platform deployments (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/search/federated-search/10.6/run-federated-searches-across-other-splunk-deployments/run-federated-searches-over-remote-splunk-platform-deployments) and Define roles on the Splunk platform with capabilities (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.4/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/define-roles-on-the-splunk-platform-with-capabilities) in the Splunk documentation.

CVSS 3.1
4.2 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.11% probability · 1th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-352
Source
psirt@cisco.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%22 October 2026: 0.11%26 October 2026: 0.11%22 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.1% on 22 October 2026 to 0.1% on 26 October 2026.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.