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title: "CVE-2026-76298: Splunk Enterprise - Privilege Escalation & Remote Code Execution"
description: "Splunk Enterprise < 10.4.4 and < 10.2.8 contains a privilege escalation caused by derivation of PostgreSQL sidecar database superuser password from search head cluster identifier in logs, letting non-admin users execute arbitrary OS commands as Splunk user, exploit requires non-admin user access."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-76298/
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# CVE-2026-76298 Splunk Enterprise - Privilege Escalation & Remote Code Execution

Splunk Enterprise < 10.4.4 and < 10.2.8 contains a privilege escalation caused by derivation of PostgreSQL sidecar database superuser password from search head cluster identifier in logs, letting non-admin users execute arbitrary OS commands as Splunk user, exploit requires non-admin user access.

CVSS base score 8.8 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76298)

## Details

Type

Privilege Escalation

Impact

Remote Code Execution, Privilege Escalation

CVSS vector

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

Published

21 October 2026

Updated

22 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-321](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/321.html)

## Vendor fix

Upgrade to versions 10.4.4, 10.2.8 or later.

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-2026-76298](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76298)
- [https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-1007](https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-1007)

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- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
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