{"id":82043,"date":"2026-07-15T20:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-20297-path-traversal-through-explicit_appname-in-the-app-install-rest-endpoint-in-splunk-enterprise\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:18:13","slug":"cve-2026-20297-path-traversal-through-explicit_appname-in-the-app-install-rest-endpoint-in-splunk-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-20297-path-traversal-through-explicit_appname-in-the-app-install-rest-endpoint-in-splunk-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-20297 &#8211; Path Traversal through &#8216;explicit_appname&#8217; in the App Install REST Endpoint in Splunk Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-20297<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 15, 2026, 5:18 p.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.1, 10.2.5, 10.0.8, 9.4.13, and 9.3.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.5.2605.0, 10.4.2604.6, 10.2.2510.18, and 10.1.2507.24, a user who holds a role that contains the `edit_local_apps` and `install_apps` capabilities could cause a legitimate app installation to write files outside the intended app directory, into `$SPLUNK_HOME\/etc\/` and its subdirectories.The vulnerability is caused by a path traversal in the app installation workflow, which does not restrict the installation path to the intended app directory.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.2 | 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-2026-20297 Published : July 15, 2026, 5:18 p.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago Description :In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.4.1, 10.2.5, 10.0.8, 9.4.13, and 9.3.14, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.5.2605.0, 10.4.2604.6, 10.2.2510.18, and 10.1.2507.24, a user who holds a role that contains the `edit_local_apps` and `install_apps` capabilities could cause a legitimate app installation &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-82043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82043","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=82043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}