CVE-2025-26399: SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
SolarWinds Web Help Desk contain a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in AjaxProxy that could allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- The vulnerability allows an attacker to run commands on the host machine through deserialization of untrusted data.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of SolarWinds Web Help Desk are affected by this vulnerability.
- Urgency
- Remediation is critical due to active exploitation and the severity of the vulnerability.
- Action
- Patch SolarWinds Web Help Desk to the latest version to address this issue.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26399
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2025-26399Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-26399 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for SolarWinds Web Help
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-40536: SolarWinds Web Help Desk Security Control Bypass Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-02-12
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-40551: SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-02-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-28987: SolarWinds Web Help Desk Hardcoded Credential Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-10-15
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-28986: SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-08-15
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