Security Advisory

CVE-2025-40540

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-02-24 07:41:17
Last updated 2026-02-26 14:44:09
Assigner SolarWinds
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.