CVE-2023-22938 — Permissions Validation Failure in the ‘sendemail’ REST API Endpoint in Splunk Enterprise

2026-10-06T16:37:25.585875+00:00

Affected: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, the ‘sendemail’ REST API endpoint lets any authenticated user send an email as the Splunk instance. The endpoint is now restricted to the ‘splunk-system-user’ account on the local instance.

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CVE-2023-22938 — Permissions Validation Failure in the ‘sendemail’ REST API Endpoint in Splunk Enterprise