{"id":78666,"date":"2026-05-20T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-20240-denial-of-service-through-coldtofrozen-sh-script-in-splunk-enterprise\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:16:26","slug":"cve-2026-20240-denial-of-service-through-coldtofrozen-sh-script-in-splunk-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-20240-denial-of-service-through-coldtofrozen-sh-script-in-splunk-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-20240 &#8211; Denial of Service through coldToFrozen.sh Script in Splunk Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-20240<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.2, 10.0.5, 9.4.11, and 9.3.12, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.4.2603.1, 10.3.2512.9, 10.2.2510.11, 10.1.2507.21, 10.0.2503.13, and 9.3.2411.129, a low-privileged user that does not hold the \u2018admin\u2019 or \u2018power\u2019 Splunk roles could cause a Denial of Service by exploiting the `coldToFrozen.sh` script in the `splunk_archiver` app to rename critical Splunk directories, making the instance non-functional.The Denial of Service is possible because of missing input validation in the `coldToFrozen.sh` script, which accepts arbitrary file paths and renames them without restricting operations to safe directories.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.1 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-20240 Published : May 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago Description :In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.2, 10.0.5, 9.4.11, and 9.3.12, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.4.2603.1, 10.3.2512.9, 10.2.2510.11, 10.1.2507.21, 10.0.2503.13, and 9.3.2411.129, a low-privileged user that does not hold the \u2018admin\u2019 or \u2018power\u2019 Splunk roles could cause a Denial of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}