CVE-2025-40538 — SolarWinds Serv-U Broken Access Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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 pr…
Published: 2026-02-24 · CVSS: 9.1 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7