A newly disclosed security vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise has prompted urgent patching efforts after researchers revealed that the flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform arbitrary file operations and potentially achieve remote code execution. The issue, identified as CVE-2026-20253, affects certain versions of Splunk Enterprise and carries a critical CVSS score of 9.8.
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