{"id":78668,"date":"2026-05-20T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-20238-improper-access-control-through-role-inheritance-in-splunk-ai-toolkit-app\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:16:26","slug":"cve-2026-20238-improper-access-control-through-role-inheritance-in-splunk-ai-toolkit-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-20238-improper-access-control-through-role-inheritance-in-splunk-ai-toolkit-app\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-20238 &#8211; Improper Access Control through Role Inheritance in Splunk AI Toolkit app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-20238<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In Splunk AI Toolkit versions below 5.7.3, a low-privileged user that does not hold the &#8216;admin&#8217; or &#8216;power&#8217; roles could access confidential data that was restricted through `srchFilter` configurations on custom roles.The app contains an `authorize.conf` configuration file with a `srchFilter` entry that modifies the built-in \u2018user\u2019 role. Because the Splunk platform combines inherited search filters with the `OR` SPL operator, the injected filter overrides more restrictive filters on child roles.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.5 | MEDIUM<\/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-2026-20238 Published : May 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m. | 41\u00a0minutes ago Description :In Splunk AI Toolkit versions below 5.7.3, a low-privileged user that does not hold the &#8216;admin&#8217; or &#8216;power&#8217; roles could access confidential data that was restricted through `srchFilter` configurations on custom roles.The app contains an `authorize.conf` configuration file with a `srchFilter` &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-78668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78668","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=78668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}