CVE-2026-20202

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 48/100
Published: 2026-04-15 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: High
PR: High
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.2, 10.0.5, 9.4.10, and 9.3.11, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.4.2603.0, 10.3.2512.6, 10.2.2510.10, 10.1.2507.20, 10.0.2503.13, and 9.3.2411.127, a user who holds a role that contains the high-privilege capability `edit_user`could create a specially crafted username that includes a null byte or a non-UTF-8 percent-encoded byte due to improper input validation.<br><br>This could lead to inconsistent conversion of usernames into a proper format for storage and account management inconsistencies, such as being unable to edit or delete affected users.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (9)

VendorProductVersion
splunk splunk 9.3.0 – 9.3.11
splunk splunk 9.4.0 – 9.4.10
splunk splunk 10.0.0 – 10.0.5
splunk splunk 10.2.0 – 10.2.2
splunk splunk_cloud_platform 9.3.2411 – 9.3.2411.127
splunk splunk_cloud_platform 10.0.2503 – 10.0.2503.13
splunk splunk_cloud_platform 10.1.2507 – 10.1.2507.20
splunk splunk_cloud_platform 10.2.2510 – 10.2.2510.10
splunk splunk_cloud_platform 10.3.2512 – 10.3.2512.6

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

48 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.6 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.25%
Raw Score 0.002460
Percentile 15.9%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00246
2026-10-28
0.00246

Intelligence Sources

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