SPL Command Safeguards Bypass through Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Deployment Server in Splunk Enterprise

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• splunk splunk9.4.0 and later · before 9.4.13
• splunk splunk10.0.0 and later · before 10.0.8
• splunk splunk10.2.0 and later · before 10.2.5
• splunk splunk10.4.0
• splunk splunk cloud platform10.1.2507 and later · before 10.1.2507.24
• splunk splunk cloud platform10.2.2510 and later · before 10.2.2510.18
• splunk splunk cloud platform10.3.2512 and later · before 10.3.2512.16
• splunk splunk cloud platform10.4.2604 and later · before 10.4.2604.7

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (cisco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Splunk Splunk Cloud Platform

  • 10.5.2605 and later · before 10.5.2605.0affected
  • 10.4.2604 and later · before 10.4.2604.7affected
  • 10.3.2512 and later · before 10.3.2512.16affected
  • 10.2.2510 and later · before 10.2.2510.18affected
  • 10.1.2507 and later · before 10.1.2507.24affected

• Splunk Splunk Enterprise

  • 10.4 and later · before 10.4.1affected
  • 10.2 and later · before 10.2.5affected
  • 10.0 and later · before 10.0.8affected
  • 9.4 and later · before 9.4.13affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-20253Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Creation and Truncation in a PostgreSQL Sidecar Service Endpoint in Splunk EnterpriseKEV
  98Now
• CVE-2023-32707‘edit_user’ Capability Privilege Escalation
  59Plan
• CVE-2018-11409Splunk through 7.0.1 allows information disclosure by appending __raw/services/server/info/server-info?output_mode=json to a query, as demon
  50Plan
• CVE-2026-20251Remote Code Execution through Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Splunk Secure Gateway
  45Plan
• CVE-2023-32714Path Traversal in Splunk App for Lookup File Editing
  45Plan
• CVE-2022-32158Splunk Enterprise deployment servers allow client publishing of forwarder bundles
  40Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));2app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));2app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.