CVE-2025-40549

critical · 9.1

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. This issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows systems, this scored as medium due to differences in how paths and home directories are handled.

9.1

CVSS

1.1%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

63rd

EPSS percentile

2025-11-18

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
solarwinds	serv-u	< 15.5.3

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References

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/release_notes/servu_15-5-3_release_notes.htm
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40549

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-40549