The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged federal agencies to secure their systems by Sunday against a critical Splunk Enterprise vulnerability that is being exploited in attacks.
Tracked as CVE-2026-20253, this security flaw affects Splunk Enterprise (versions 10.2.0 to 10.2.3 and 10.0.0 to 10.0.6) and allows remote attackers without privileges to create or truncate arbitrary files on vulnerable devices via a PostgreSQL sidecar service endpoint.
"The vulnerability exists because the PostgreSQL sidecar service endpoint lacks authentication controls, allowing any network-reachable user to invoke file operations without credentials," the Splunk security team said in a security advisory published last week.
On June 12, days after Splunk released security patches, WatchTowr published a technical write-up, shared proof-of-concept exploit code, and warned that the flaw can be abused for remote code execution attacks.
On Wednesday, June 18, Splunk updated its advisory, urging customers to patch their systems as soon as possible due to evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.
