Splunk, a publicly owned company headquartered in the US and a subsidiary of Cisco, with approximately 8,740 employees, focuses on Software Development and provides customers with a unified security and observability platform.
On February 20, 2026, Splunk introduced Cyber Vision Site Manager and a new Splunk app to automate multi-site operational technology (OT) security management and provide unified visibility across industrial sites. Earlier on the same day, a serious security flaw was identified in Splunk Enterprise for Windows, allowing local privilege escalation attacks through DLL search-order hijacking. Tracked as CVE-2026-20140 under advisory SVD-2026-0205, this vulnerability affects versions below 10.2.0, 10.0.3, 9.4.8, 9.3.9, and 9.2.12.