CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40538
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-02-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• solarwinds serv-u (< 15.5.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/release_notes/servu_15-5-4_release_notes.htm Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40538 Vendor Advisory