Known exploited vulnerabilities
SolarWinds vulnerabilities attackers have used
Every SolarWinds vulnerability in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, newest first, with the federal due date and whether it fed ransomware campaigns.
The short answer
CISA lists 11 SolarWinds vulnerabilities as exploited in the wild, 4 of them added in the last 12 months and 2 used in ransomware campaigns. The most recent is CVE-2026-28318, added Jun 5, 2026. Web Help Desk has the most entries (5).
- In KEV, all time
- 11
- Added, last 12 months
- 4
- Used in ransomware
- 2
- New CVEs this week
- 0
By product
Web Help Desk (5), Serv-U (4), Orion (1), Virtualization Manager (1).
Every SolarWinds entry in CISA KEV
CVE-2026-28318
Added · dueSolarWinds Serv-U Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability
SolarWinds Serv-U contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows specially crafted POST requests using the Content-Encoding: deflate header to crash the Serv-U service without authentication.
SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
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.
CVE-2025-40536
Added · dueSolarWinds Web Help Desk Security Control Bypass Vulnerability
SolarWinds Web Help Desk contains a security control bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to certain restricted functionality.
CVE-2025-40551
Added · dueSolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
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.
CVE-2024-28987
Added · dueSolarWinds Web Help Desk Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability
SolarWinds Web Help Desk contains a hardcoded credential vulnerability that could allow a remote, unauthenticated user to access internal functionality and modify data.
CVE-2024-28986
Added · dueSolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
SolarWinds Web Help Desk contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could allow for remote code execution.
CVE-2024-28995
Added · dueSolarWinds Serv-U Path Traversal Vulnerability
SolarWinds Serv-U contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an attacker access to read sensitive files on the host machine.
CVE-2021-35247
Added · dueSolarWinds Serv-U Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
SolarWinds Serv-U versions 15.2.5 and earlier contain an improper input validation vulnerability that allows attackers to build and send queries without sanitization.
SolarWinds Serv-U Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
SolarWinds Serv-U contains an unspecified memory escape vulnerability which can allow for remote code execution.
CVE-2020-10148
Added · dueSolarWinds Orion Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
SolarWinds Orion API contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to execute API commands.
CVE-2016-3643
Added · dueSolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager allows for privilege escalation through leveraging a misconfiguration of sudo.
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