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.
Problem types
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Product status
SolarWinds Serv-U 15.5.3 and prior versions
References
www.solarwinds.com/...ter/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40538
documentation.solarwinds.com/...rvu_15-5-4_release_notes.htm