Cisco CWE-552 File/Directory External Access Vulnerability
CVE-2026-76531 Published on October 21, 2026
Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties in Splunk SOAR
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, Cisco has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-76531 are related to files or directories accessible to external parties and are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) CWE-552.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-76531 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
The product makes files or directories accessible to unauthorized actors, even though they should not be. Web servers, FTP servers, and similar servers may store a set of files underneath a "root" directory that is accessible to the server's users. Applications may store sensitive files underneath this root without also using access control to limit which users may request those files, if any. Alternately, an application might package multiple files or directories into an archive file (e.g., ZIP or tar), but the application might not exclude sensitive files that are underneath those directories.
Affected Versions
Splunk SOAR:- Before 8.7.0 is affected.