CVE-2025-40541

CRITICAL

Serv-U - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability exists in Serv-U, which when exploited, gives a malicious actor the ability to execute native code as a privileged account. 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 1.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-704 CWE-639
Status published
Products (1)
solarwinds/serv-u < 15.5.4
Published Feb 24, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 24, 2026