{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-76298 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-76298 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-76298 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, published on 21 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-76298 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-76298 is a high-severity vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, published on 21 Oct 2026. \nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-76298 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Splunk Enterprise. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76298/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76298/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-76298","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76298/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-76298","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-jj4w-fcgh-mh9q"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":"cisco","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-321","name":"Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key"}],"description":"In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.4 and 10.2.8, a user who does not hold the \"admin\" or \"power\" Splunk roles could derive the PostgreSQL sidecar database superuser password and run arbitrary operating system commands as the user account running Splunk Enterprise on search head cluster members.\nThe vulnerability is possible because the PostgreSQL sidecar service derives a privileged database password from the search head cluster identifier that appears in search job logs.\nFor more information see About configuring role-based user access (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.2/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/about-configuring-role-based-user-access), server.conf (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/admin-manual/10.2/configuration-file-reference/10.2.0-configuration-file-reference/server.conf), and Sidecar configuration settings (https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/admin-manual/10.4/splunk-sidecars/sidecar-configuration-settings) in the Splunk documentation.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key in the PostgreSQL Sidecar Service in Splunk Enterprise","id":"CVE-2026-76298","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Security Hardening in Splunk Enterprise - October 2026","id":"CVE-2026-76299"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Federated Search Provider State Change through Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Splunk Web for Splunk Enterprise","id":"CVE-2026-76297"},"products":["Splunk Enterprise"],"published":"2026-10-21","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-23","vendors":["Splunk"]},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-76298/"}