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Why Use App-Level Auth When Every Database Has Auth? (Splunk Enterprise CVE-2026-20253 Pre-Auth RCE)
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MITRE ATT&CK techniques
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-20253cve
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2026-0603?ref=labs.watchtowr.comurl
- https://watchtowr.com/demo/?ref=labs.watchtowr.comurl
- https://help.splunk.com/en/data-management/process-data-at-the-edge/use-edge-processors-for-splunk-enterprise/10.0/troubleshooting/back-up-and-restore-the-data-management-control-plane?ref=labs.watchtowr.comurl
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html?ref=labs.watchtowr.comurl
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html?ref=labs.watchtowr.com#LIBPQ-CONNSTRINGurl
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html?ref=labs.watchtowr.com#LIBPQ-PARAMKEYWORDSurl
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html?ref=labs.watchtowr.comurl
- http://vulnerable.splunk.lab:8000>url
- storage.ghost.iodomain
- yes-f5-we-are-very-petty.comdomain