SolarWinds Serv-U Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-40540)

Summary

A type confusion vulnerability exists in Serv-U which when exploited, gives a malicious actor the ability to execute arbitrary native code as privileged account.

This issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows deployments, the risk is scored as a medium because services frequently run under less-privileged service accounts by default.