CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40553
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
Description
SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found to be susceptible to an untrusted data deserialization vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution, which would allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine. This could be exploited without authentication.
Affected configurations
• solarwinds web help desk (< 2026.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/whd/content/release_notes/whd_2026-1_release_notes.htm Release Notes
- https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40553 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/watchTowr-vs-SolarWinds-WebHelpDesk-CVE-2025-40552-CVE-2025-40553/blob/main/watchTowr-vs-SolarWinds-WebHelpDesk-CVE-2025-40552-CVE-2025-40553.py github.com