Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-76359 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-76359 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-76359?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 19 August 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Splunk SOAR below 8.6.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-76359?
- A patch was published on 2026-08-19: Splunk SOAR 8.6.0 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-76359 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-76359?
- Check whether you run Splunk SOAR at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
This is a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) in the Universal Forwarder credentials-package extraction workflow within Splunk SOAR versions below 8.6.0. The vulnerability exists because the archive extraction routine does not validate that extracted file paths remain within the intended destination directory before extraction. An authenticated user with the Administrator role can exploit this by crafting a malicious archive with path traversal sequences (e.g., "../") to write files to arbitrary locations on the system. No user interaction is required beyond the attacker having Administrator privileges. The fix is available in Splunk SOAR 8.6.0 and later.
Affected products
- Splunk SOAR below 8.6.0
Timeline
- 2026-08-19: disclosed
- 2026-08-19: patched: Splunk SOAR 8.6.0