{"id":218892,"date":"2026-02-25T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u-15-5-flaws-allowing-root-code-execution\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:45:12","slug":"solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u-15-5-flaws-allowing-root-code-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u-15-5-flaws-allowing-root-code-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarWinds Patches 4 Critical Serv-U 15.5 Flaws Allowing Root Code Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u.html\">SolarWinds Patches 4 Critical Serv-U 15.5 Flaws Allowing Root Code Execution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 02:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">Feb 25, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Vulnerability \/ Windows Security<\/span><\/p>\n<p>SolarWinds has released updates to address four critical security flaws in its Serv-U file transfer software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities, all rated 9.1 on the CVSS scoring system, are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CVE-2025-40538<\/strong> &#8211; A broken access control vulnerability that allows an attacker to create a system admin user and execute arbitrary code as root via domain admin or group admin privileges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2025-40539<\/strong> &#8211; A type confusion vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary native code as root.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2025-40540<\/strong> &#8211; A type confusion vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary native code as root.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2025-40541<\/strong> &#8211; An insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute native code as root.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SolarWinds noted that the vulnerabilities require administrative privileges for successful exploitation. It also said that they carry a medium security risk on Windows deployments as the services &#8220;frequently run under less-privileged service accounts by default.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four shortcomings affect SolarWinds Serv-U version 15.5. They have been addressed in SolarWinds Serv-U version 15.5.4.<\/p>\n<p>While SolarWinds makes no mention of the security flaws being exploited in the wild, prior vulnerabilities in the software (CVE-2021-35211, CVE-2021-35247, and CVE-2024-28995) have been exploited by malicious actors, including by a China-based hacking group tracked as Storm-0322 (formerly DEV-0322).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolarWinds Patches 4 Critical Serv-U 15.5 Flaws Allowing Root Code Execution https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u.html Publish Date: 2026-02-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiJsxWsiu7fwprSIRxMv2GeyDwgjXKWppIf60pJICGIbw87BvlIEuh4P_8cWt1GXCcChC7u521YqP5RVa-3vV-Hs2djakl0xfjcRe5YAQPnrekGJBVrrdC8MKMcGKsG0YxOXZF15XUTTLXiEWhJViXZUnI2Rl2S9QLe3lUuautotpE8OhS1D6g2HfmAEI86\/s1600\/solarwinds-serv-u.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-218892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218894,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218892\/revisions\/218894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}