High-Severity Vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U
9 June 2026
Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U to crash the file transfer service without authentication, causing a denial of service condition. Patch immediately.
Background
SolarWinds has released a security update to address an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability (CVE-2026-28318) affecting SolarWinds Serv-U. This vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS v3.1) score of 7.5 out of 10.
Impact
Due to improper handling of specially crafted POST requests using the Content-Encoding: deflate header, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the Serv-U service, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
Known Exploitation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
Affected Products
This vulnerability affects SolarWinds Serv-U versions 15.5.4 and earlier.
Recommendations
Users and administrators of affected products are advised to update to SolarWinds Serv-U 15.5.4 Hotfix 1 immediately.
References
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2026-28318
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28318
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/cisa-adds-actively-exploited-solarwinds.html
