CVE-2026-20298

Sensitive Information Disclosure through the storage/passwords REST Endpoint in Splunk Enterprise

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jul 15, 2026
Updated: Jul 16, 2026
Reserved: Oct 8, 2025

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.1, 10.2.5, 10.0.8, and 9.4.13, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.5.2605.0, 10.4.2604.6, 10.3.2512.15, 10.2.2510.18, and 10.1.2507.24, a low-privileged user that does not hold the 'admin' or 'power' Splunk roles could view stored credential hashes when they access the `/servicesNS/-/-/storage/passwords` REST endpoint through the `|rest` Search Processing Language (SPL) command.<br><br>The exposure happens because the `|rest` SPL command returns the `encr_password` field in the results of the `/servicesNS/-/-/storage/passwords` REST endpoint.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	cisco

Weaknesses

CWE-200 The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Splunk EnterpriseSplunk	10.4 to before 10.4.1Affected 10.2 to before 10.2.5Affected 10.0 to before 10.0.8Affected 9.4 to before 9.4.13Affected
Splunk Cloud PlatformSplunk	10.5.2605 to before 10.5.2605.0Affected 10.4.2604 to before 10.4.2604.6Affected 10.3.2512 to before 10.3.2512.15Affected 10.2.2510 to before 10.2.2510.18Affected 10.1.2507 to before 10.1.2507.24Affected

References

https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-0704

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