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CVE-2025-40538

Medienbericht

SolarWinds Serv-U Broken Access Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A broken access control vulnerability exists in Serv-U which when exploited, gives a malicious actor the ability to create a system admin user and execute arbitrary code as a privileged account via domain admin or group admin privileges.

This issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows deployments, the risk is scored as a medium because services frequently run under less-privileged service accounts by default.
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SolarwindsServ-u Version < 15.5.4
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.5% 0.385
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.2 1.2 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
psirt@solarwinds.com 9.1 2.3 6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

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Media Report
25.02.2026 12:42
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40538
Vendor Advisory
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/release_notes/servu_15-5-4_release_notes.htm
Vendor Advisory
Release Notes