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CVE-2026-28318

Severity
high · on CISA KEV actively exploited
Source
CISA-KEV · kev
Published
2026-06-05
Reference
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28318
⌖ exploited in the wild shame 45/100 exploited-in-wildunpatched

SolarWinds Serv-U allows unauthenticated service crashes via crafted POST requests with a specific Content-Encoding header.

This vulnerability enables denial-of-service through resource exhaustion without requiring authentication, exposing SolarWinds-managed systems to disruption. DIB organizations must patch immediately to prevent service outages that could compromise sensitive data access or operational continuity.

Shame score — A denial-of-service vulnerability that does not require authentication but still poses significant operational risk to critical infrastructure.

Players implicated

SolarWinds · vendorServ-U · product

Description

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.

Affected FedRAMP products 0 in the catalog

No correlated FedRAMP products.