CVE-2026-76391 PUBLISHED

Improper Privilege Management through Agent Run History in Splunk AI Toolkit

Assigner: cisco
Reserved: 19.08.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

In Splunk AI Toolkit versions below 6.0.0, a user who does not hold the "admin" or "power" Splunk roles could run searches with system-level privileges, access all relevant data, affect system integrity, and read or delete search jobs belonging to other users through Agent Run History. The improper privilege management is possible because the Agent Run History handler replaces the calling user session key with a system authentication token before it performs search operations. For more information see AI Toolkit Agent Launchpad (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/apply-machine-learning/use-ai-toolkit/6.0.0/ai-toolkit-connections-containers-and-agents/ai-toolkit-agent-launchpad) in the Splunk documentation.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS Score: 8.3

Product Status

Vendor Splunk
Product Splunk AI Toolkit
Versions
  • affected from 5.7 to 6.0.0 (excl.)

Workarounds

Turn off or remove the Splunk AI Toolkit app. For more information see Manage app and add-on objects in the Splunk documentation. Note: turning off Splunk AI Toolkit turns off AI Toolkit Search Processing Language (SPL) commands and model operations. Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning and custom search commands that depend on AI Toolkit models or APIs might stop functioning. Unrelated Splunk custom search commands are not affected. For more information see Troubleshoot the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit and DSDL install/version dependencies in the Splunk documentation.

Solutions

Upgrade each affected Splunk app or add-on to the applicable fixed version listed in Product Status.

Credits

  • Gabriel Nitu, Splunk reporter

References

Problem Types

  • The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. cwe