{"id":"CVE-2025-40549","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-40549","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:23:22.719Z","title":"A Path Restriction Bypass vulnerability exists in Serv-U that when abused, could give a malicious actor with access to admin privileges the ability to execute code on a directory.","description":"A Path Restriction Bypass vulnerability exists in Serv-U that when abused, could give a malicious actor with access to admin privileges the ability to execute code on a directory. \n\nThis issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows systems, this scored as medium due to differences in how paths and home directories are handled.","published":"2025-11-18T09:15:52.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-18T20:10:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@solarwinds.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["solarwinds/serv-u"],"epss":{"score":0.01129,"percentile":0.6616,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/release_notes/servu_15-5-3_release_notes.htm","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"psirt@solarwinds.com"},{"url":"https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40549","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@solarwinds.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40549","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}