CVE-2025-40549 (GCVE-0-2025-40549)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-18 08:41
Modified
2025-11-19 04:55
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SolarWinds Serv-U Version: SolarWinds Serv-U 15.5.2 and prior versions
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