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CVE-2025-40549

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CVE-2025-40549

Published: Nov 18, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.1

CRITICAL

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.

VendorProductVersions

SolarWinds

Serv-U

affected
SolarWinds Serv-U 15.5.2 and prior versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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