{"id":77864,"date":"2026-02-24T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40539-solarwinds-serv-u-type-confusion-remote-code-execution-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:16:27","slug":"cve-2025-40539-solarwinds-serv-u-type-confusion-remote-code-execution-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40539-solarwinds-serv-u-type-confusion-remote-code-execution-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40539 &#8211; SolarWinds Serv-U Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40539<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 24, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 49\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : A type confusion vulnerability exists in Serv-U which when exploited, gives a malicious actor the ability to execute arbitrary native code as privileged account.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 9.1 | CRITICAL<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40539 Published : Feb. 24, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 49\u00a0minutes ago Description : A type confusion vulnerability exists in Serv-U which when exploited, gives a malicious actor the ability to execute arbitrary native code as privileged account. This issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows deployments, the risk is scored as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}