CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-40549

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2025-11-18 Modified 2026-10-18 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-11-18
Last modified
2026-10-18
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
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

A Path Restriction Bypass vulnerability exists in Serv-U that when abused, could give a malicious actor with access to admin privileges the ability to execute code on a directory. This issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows systems, this scored as medium due to differences in how paths and home directories are handled.

Affected configurations

• solarwinds serv-u (< 15.5.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References