Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-40539
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 a medium because services frequently run under less-privileged service accounts by default.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 19.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.1
References
Products affected by CVE-2025-40539
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:-
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.3
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.4.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:serv-u:15.5