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Detection: Splunk Account Discovery Drilldown Dashboard Disclosure

REMOVED DETECTION

This detection has been removed from the Splunk Threat Research content library and is no longer maintained or supported.

Reason: Detection is deprecated as the associated CVEs have been patched in the latest Splunk release.

Removed in version: 5.6.0

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at research@splunk.com.

Updated Date: 2026-05-14 ID: f844c3f6-fd99-43a2-ba24-93e35fe84be6 Author: Marissa Bower, Rod Soto, Splunk Type: TTP Product: Splunk Enterprise Security

Description

The following analytic identifies the presence of environment variables in Splunk dashboard drilldown URLs. It uses the REST API to query dashboards for specific patterns in the XML data. This activity is significant because it can expose sensitive tokens from privileged users if an attacker shares a malicious dashboard. If confirmed malicious, this could allow an attacker to detokenize variables and potentially gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or escalate privileges within the Splunk environment.

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2| rest splunk_server=local /servicesNS/-/-/data/ui/views 
3| search eai:data="*$env:*" eai:data="*url*" eai:data="*options*" 
4| rename author AS Author eai:acl.sharing AS Permissions eai:appName AS App eai:data AS "Dashboard XML" 
5| fields Author Permissions App "Dashboard XML" 
6| `splunk_account_discovery_drilldown_dashboard_disclosure_filter`

Data Source

No data sources specified for this detection.

Macros Used

Name Value

| splunk_account_discovery_drilldown_dashboard_disclosure_filter | `` |

splunk_account_discovery_drilldown_dashboard_disclosure_filter is an empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.

Annotations

- MITRE ATT&CK
+ Kill Chain Phases
+ NIST
+ CIS
- Threat Actors
ID Technique Tactic
T1087 Account Discovery Discovery

CVE

Default Configuration

This detection is configured by default in Splunk Enterprise Security to run with the following settings:

Setting Value
Disabled true
Cron Schedule N/A
Earliest Time N/A
Latest Time N/A
Schedule Window N/A
Creates Finding (Notable) No
Creates Intermediate Finding (Risk Event) No
TTP detections generate a Finding (Notable) and may generate Intermediate Findings (Risk Events) for associated entities.

Implementation

This search uses REST function to query for dashboards with environment variables present in URL options.

Known False Positives

This search may reveal non malicious URLs with environment variables used in organizations.

Associated Analytic Story

References

Detection Testing

Test Type Status Dataset Source Sourcetype
Validation Not Applicable N/A N/A N/A
Unit Not Applicable N/A N/A N/A
Integration Not Applicable N/A N/A N/A

Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range

Source: GitHub |

Version: 6