CVE-2025-40551: 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 contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution, which would allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine. This could be exploited without authentication.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- There is a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of SolarWinds Web Help Desk are affected.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Apply the latest security patch provided by SolarWinds.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40551
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-2025-40551Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 99.7% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-40551 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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