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CVE-2025-40551

Critical CVSS 9.8 Known exploited

Published 2026-01-28 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2026-02-03

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2025-40551 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-02-03. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2025-40551, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found to be susceptible to an untrusted data deserialization 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.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H