Release notes for the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on

Version 8.6.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on was released on July 21, 2026.
Note: The version number for the Common Information Model is synchronized with the version number of Splunk Enterprise Security.

New features or enhancements

Version 8.6.0 of the Common Information Model (CIM) includes the following new enhancement:

Table 1. Summary of changes
Enhancement Description
Extend the vulnerability data model with new fields A number of fields were added to the Vulnerability data model to enhance analytics, correlation, and detection capabilities. These fields cover CVSS scoring details, metadata from threat intelligence sources such as CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities and additional enrichment fields such as product version and external references. These fields help to support advanced use cases such as contextual risk scoring, prioritization, and dynamic vulnerability triage.

Upgrade requirements

Splunk platform version Upgrade activity
8.0.x or later If you apply custom tags to data mapped to CIM data models and you use these tags in searches and search filters, add these tags to the allowlists for those models. See Set up the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on for details about the tags allow list field.

Compatibility

Version 5.0.x and higher of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on requires Splunk platform version 8.0.x or higher. Some workarounds, such as the data models spec workaround for tags_allowlist and poll_buckets, are no longer available in version 7.0.x and higher. This might lead to btool check warnings at startup.

Fixed issues

CIM version 8.6.0 of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on fixes the following issues. If this section is empty, this release has no reported fixed issues.

Issue Date fixed Description
CIM-1102 07-05-2026 AuditTrail events incorrectly set the src field when app=splunk.
CIM-1282 04-30-2026 The Web Datamodel must include signature and signature_id fields.
CIM-1029 07-19-2026 File hash or Process hash fields are ambiguous.
CIM-1306 06-02-2026 Endpoint data model is missing the following inherited fields: _time, host, source and sourcetype .
CIM-1501 06-03-2026 Discrepancy between CIM documentation and the app configuration for src_port field type.
CIM-1517 05-14-2026 CIM setup view shows An error occurred fetching assets. Please try again for Splunk Cloud Classic stacks.

Known issues

This version of the Splunk Common Information Model Add-on has the following reported known issues. If this section is empty, this release has no reported known issues.

Deprecated or removed features

The following are deprecated or removed features:

As of version 8.6.0:

  • N/A

As of version 8.5.0:

  • N/A

As of version 6.4.0:

  • N/A

As of version 6.3.0:

  • N/A

As of version 6.2.0:

  • N/A

As of version 6.1.0:

  • N/A

As of version 6.0.4:

  • N/A

As of version 6.0.3:

  • N/A

As of version 6.0.2:

  • N/A

As of version 6.0.1:

  • N/A

As of version 6.0.0:

  • N/A

As of version 5.3.3:

  • N/A

As of version 5.3.2:

  • N/A

As of version 5.3.1:

  • N/A

As of version 5.2.0:

  • N/A

As of version 5.1.1:

  • N/A

As of version 5.1.0:

  • N/A

As of version 5.0.1:

  • N/A

As of version 5.0.0:

  • N/A

As of version 4.20.2:

  • N/A

As of version 4.20.0:

  • N/A

As of version 4.19.0:

  • N/A

As of version 4.18.0:

  • The body field is deprecated in favor of the description field in the Alerts data model and will be removed in a future version.
  • The subject field is deprecated in favor of the signature field in the Alerts data model and will be removed in a future version.

As of version 4.15.0:

  • The Predictive Analytics dashboard is removed in favor of Machine Learning Toolkit functionality.

As of version 4.14.0:

  • The Predictive Analytics dashboard is deprecated in favor of Machine Learning Toolkit functionality and will be removed in a future version.

As of version 4.13.0:

  • N/A

Third-party software attributions

The Splunk Common Information Model Add-on does not incorporate any third-party software or libraries.