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FKIE_CVE-2024-28995

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-06-06 09:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:22

Severity

8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

SolarWinds Serv-U was susceptible to a directory transversal vulnerability that would allow access to read sensitive files on the host machine.

References

URL	Tags
psirt@solarwinds.com	https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2024-28995	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2024-28995	Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-28995	US Government Resource

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
solarwinds	serv-u	*
solarwinds	serv-u	15.4.2
solarwinds	serv-u	15.4.2

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CVE-2024-28995 (GCVE-0-2024-28995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-06 09:01 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:05

Title

SolarWinds Serv-U L Directory Transversal Vulnerability

Summary

SolarWinds Serv-U was susceptible to a directory transversal vulnerability that would allow access to read sensitive files on the host machine.

Severity

8.6 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-07-17 16:46 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

SolarWinds mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-…	vendor-advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
SolarWinds	SolarWinds Serv-U	Affected: 15.4.2 HF 1 and previous versions
solarwinds	serv-u	Affected: 0 , ≤ 15.4.2_hf_1 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u::::::::

Credits

Hussein Daher

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