CVE-2025-40549 – SolarWinds Serv-U Path Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-40549

Published : Nov. 18, 2025, 8:41 a.m. | 23 minutes ago

Description : 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.

Severity: 9.1 | CRITICAL

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