CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-26399
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability — SolarWinds Web Help Desk
SolarWinds Web Help Desk contain a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in AjaxProxy that could allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-03-09
- Remediation due
- 2026-03-12
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Notes
- https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2025-26399 ; https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/whd/content/release_notes/whd_12-8-7-hotfix-1_release_notes.htm ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26399
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-11
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
Description
SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found to be susceptible to an unauthenticated AjaxProxy deserialization remote code execution vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine. This vulnerability is a patch bypass of CVE-2024-28988, which in turn is a patch bypass of CVE-2024-28986.
Affected configurations
• solarwinds web help desk (<= 12.8.6)
• solarwinds web help desk 12.8.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/whd/content/release_notes/whd_12-8-7-hotfix-1_release_notes.htm Release Notes
- https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-26399 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-26399 US Government Resource
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/06/active-exploitation-solarwinds-web-help-desk/ Third Party Advisory