SolarWinds Serv-U privilege escalation

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A vulnerability has been found in SolarWinds Serv-U and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to privilege escalation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-28310. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in SolarWinds Serv-U (the affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

SolarWinds Serv-U is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a domain administrator to escalate their user type to that of a system administrator. The impact is lower in Windows deployments.

The advisory is shared at solarwinds.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-28310 since 02/26/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/21/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• File Transfer Software

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• SolarWinds

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• Serv-U

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.solarwinds.com/

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