Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-02-24T07:40:12.958Z

Last Modified :

2026-02-26T14:44:09.848Z

Source :

SolarWinds
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-40538 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Solarwinds
  • Serv-u
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-40538.

URL Resource
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/release_notes/servu_15-5-4_release_notes.htm cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40538 cve-icon cve-icon
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CVSS Vulnerability Scoring System

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