CVE-2025-26399
📛 CVE Title
SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description
SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found to be susceptible to an unauthenticated AjaxProxy deserialization remote code execution vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine. This vulnerability is a patch bypass of CVE-2024-28988, which in turn is a patch bypass of CVE-2024-28986.
Overview
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Assigner (CNA)
- SolarWinds
- CVSS severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS score
- 9.8 / 10
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Effective score
- 9.8 / 10 CRITICAL source: CNA overview
- CWE(s)
-
CWE-502 - Reserved
- 2025-02-08
- Published
- 2025-09-23 05:07 UTC
- Last updated
- 2026-03-10 03:55 UTC
- Source
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2025/26xxx/CVE-2025-26399.json
- Linked Threat
- CVE-2025-26399 — SolarWinds Web Help Desk: SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities CISA KEV
CISA has confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of this CVE. Federal agencies must remediate by the due date below; private orgs should treat it as priority-1.
- Vulnerability name
- SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
- Vendor / project
- SolarWinds
- Product
- Web Help Desk
- Date added to KEV
- 2026-03-09
- Remediation due
- 2026-03-12
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
- CISA notes
- https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2025-26399 ; https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/whd/content/release_notes/whd_12-8-7-hotfix-1_release_notes.htm ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26399
- CISA listing
- www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
NVD triage scoring NVD CVE 2.0
Layer NVD adds on top of the CNA's CVE record — published / last-modified timestamps, exploitability / impact subscores, and the FIRST.org EPSS probability that this CVE will be exploited in the wild in the next 30 days.
- NVD published
- 2025-09-23 05:15:35 UTC
- NVD last modified
- 2026-03-10 13:11:15 UTC
- NVD CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 / 10 CRITICAL source: psirt@solarwinds.com
- NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Exploitability subscore
- 3.9 / 10
- Impact subscore
- 5.9 / 10
- EPSS score
- 0.2675 (probability of exploitation in next 30 days)
- EPSS percentile
- 96.42% vs all CVEs — higher = more likely to be exploited, as of 2026-05-24
NVD / KEV / EPSS data refreshed 2026-05-25 05:45 UTC. Re-run the 🛰 Backfill from NVD button above to refresh.
European Union Vulnerability Database ENISA EUVD
ENISA's official EU repository for curated vulnerability intelligence. Carries a separate identifier (EUVD-YYYY-NNNN) and frequently exposes an earlier-published description + CVSS than NVD does.
- EUVD ID
-
EUVD-2025-30842 - Assigner
- SolarWinds
- Published
- Sep 23, 2025, 5:07:14 AM
- Updated
- Mar 10, 2026, 3:55:22 AM
- EUVD base score (CVSS 3.1)
-
9.8 / 10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EUVD-reported EPSS
- 26.7500
- Vendors
- SolarWinds
- Products
-
Web Help Desk (12.8.7 and below)
- Aliases
-
GHSA-vfrj-f292-3f24
ENISA description: SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found to be susceptible to an unauthenticated AjaxProxy deserialization remote code execution vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine. This vulnerability is a patch bypass of CVE-2024-28988, which in turn is a patch bypass of CVE-2024-28986.
Affected products (1)
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| SolarWinds | Web Help Desk |
12.8.7 and below (affected)
|
— |
Affected products — CPE 2.3 (2) NVD
NVD's normalized CPE 2.3 matchers, used by vendor tools (vulnerability scanners, asset managers) for automated detection. Compare with the CNA's free-text "Affected products" section above.
cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:web_help_desk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:web_help_desk:12.8.7:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendor references (2)
References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.
MITRE references (2) cveawg.mitre.org
Pulled from MITRE's CVE Services API by the 🛰 Backfill from MITRE button.
Web references (4)
DuckDuckGo results ranked by threat-intel / vendor advisory domains. Generated by the 🔎 Find references (web) button above — same flow as the Remediations search.
- http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html rapid7:cwe.mitre.org
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-26399 rapid7:attackerkb.com
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-26399 rapid7:www.cve.org
- https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2025-26399 rapid7:www.solarwinds.com
NVD-tagged references (4)
Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.
- https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/whd/content/release_notes/whd_12-8-7-hotfix-1_release_notes.htm psirt@solarwinds.com Release Notes
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-26399 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 US Government Resource
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/06/active-exploitation-solarwinds-web-help-desk/ 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-26399 psirt@solarwinds.com PatchVendor Advisory
Indicators (2)
IOCs linked to the auto-promoted Threat row.
| Type | Value | VirusTotal | Attached |
|---|---|---|---|
| cwe |
CWE-502
|
no local data | 2026-05-14 02:58 UTC |
| cve |
CVE-2025-26399
|
no local data | 2026-05-14 02:58 UTC |
Remediations (1)
Remediations are stored against the linked Threat row; the list below is deduplicated across both pages.
-
CISA KEV
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Due date: 2026-03-12 Known ransomware campaign use: Unknown
2026-05-14 01:13 UTC
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Raw JSON
The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2025-26399.json.
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