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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2025-40541 EUVD-2025-207543GHSA-vh45-gfxf-vr42

SolarWinds Serv-U Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Feb 24, 2026 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by SolarWinds

Description

An Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability exists in Serv-U, which when exploited, gives a malicious actor the ability to execute native code as a privileged account.

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
SolarWinds Serv-U SolarWinds Serv-U 15.5.3 and prior versions —

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