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title: "CVE-2026-76290: Splunk Enterprise - Denial of Service"
description: "Splunk Enterprise < 10.4.4, 10.2.8, and 10.0.11 contains a denial of service caused by unauthenticated repeated requests to the Edge Processor package download endpoint, letting unauthenticated users cause resource exhaustion and daemon unresponsiveness, exploit requires unauthenticated access to the endpoint."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-76290/
---

# CVE-2026-76290 Splunk Enterprise - Denial of Service

Splunk Enterprise < 10.4.4, 10.2.8, and 10.0.11 contains a denial of service caused by unauthenticated repeated requests to the Edge Processor package download endpoint, letting unauthenticated users cause resource exhaustion and daemon unresponsiveness, exploit requires unauthenticated access to the endpoint.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76290)

## Details

Type

Denial of Service

Impact

Denial Of Service

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Published

21 October 2026

Updated

22 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html)

## Vendor fix

Upgrade to versions 10.4.4, 10.2.8, 10.0.11 or later and enable authentication for Edge Processor package downloads.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76290](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76290)
- [https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-1007](https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-1007)

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