CVE-2026-28316
CriticalCVSS 9.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk67th percentile - higher than 67% of all known CVEs
Summary
SolarWinds Serv-U is affected by an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability that can lead to privilege escalation to a system administrator with the ability to execute commands as the root user. This issue requires a domain account with administrator access. The impact is lower in Windows deployments.
Risk Assessment
An authenticated attacker with a domain account can gain full control over the Serv-U server, enabling arbitrary command execution as root.
Recommendation
Apply the patch provided by SolarWinds and restrict privileges of domain accounts used for Serv-U management.
Original NVD description (English source)
SolarWinds Serv-U is affected by an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability that can lead to privilege escalation to a system administrator with the ability to execute commands as the root user. This issue requires a domain account with administrator access. The impact is lower in Windows deployments.