CVE-2025-40538

7.2 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.2) in solarwinds serv-u. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.2 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2026-02-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

solarwinds:serv-u

References

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/release_notes/servu_15-5-4_release_notes.htm
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40538

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