CVE-2025-40538 – SolarWinds Serv-U Broken Access Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-40538

Published : Feb. 24, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 49 minutes ago

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.

Severity: 9.1 | CRITICAL

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