CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-20240
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.2, 10.0.5, 9.4.11, and 9.3.12, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.4.2603.1, 10.3.2512.9, 10.2.2510.11, 10.1.2507.21, 10.0.2503.13, and 9.3.2411.129, a low-privileged user that does not hold the ‘admin’ or ‘power’ Splunk roles could cause a Denial of Service by exploiting the `coldToFrozen.sh` script in the `splunk_archiver` app to rename critical Splunk directories, making the instance non-functional.<br><br>The Denial of Service is possible because of missing input validation in the `coldToFrozen.sh` script, which accepts arbitrary file paths and renames them without restricting operations to safe directories.
Affected configurations
• splunk splunk (>= 9.3.0 < 9.3.12)
• splunk splunk (>= 9.4.0 < 9.4.11)
• splunk splunk (>= 10.0.0 < 10.0.5)
• splunk splunk (>= 10.2.0 < 10.2.2)
• splunk splunk cloud platform (>= 9.3.2411 < 9.3.2411.129)
• splunk splunk cloud platform (>= 10.0.2503 < 10.0.2503.13)
• splunk splunk cloud platform (>= 10.1.2507 < 10.1.2507.21)
• splunk splunk cloud platform (>= 10.2.2510 < 10.2.2510.11)
• splunk splunk cloud platform (>= 10.3.2512 < 10.3.2512.9)
• splunk splunk cloud platform 10.4.2603
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-0504 Vendor Advisory