CVE-2026-20163: 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…

PriorityP350high7.2CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.46%

36.7th percentile

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.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
splunk	splunk	>= 10.0.0 < 10.0.4	10.0.4
splunk	splunk	>= 9.3.0 < 9.3.10	9.3.10
splunk	splunk	>= 9.4.0 < 9.4.9	9.4.9
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 10.0.2503 < 10.0.2503.12	10.0.2503.12
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 10.1.2507 < 10.1.2507.16	10.1.2507.16
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 10.2.2510 < 10.2.2510.5	10.2.2510.5
splunk	splunk_cloud_platform	>= 9.3.2411 < 9.3.2411.124	9.3.2411.124
splunk	splunk_enterprise	>= 10.0 < 10.0.4	10.0.4
splunk	splunk_enterprise	>= 9.3 < 9.3.10	9.3.10
splunk	splunk_enterprise	>= 9.4 < 9.4.9	9.4.9

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