SolarWinds Security Update – 07 June 2026

SolarWinds has released a security update to address a vulnerability affecting SolarWinds Serv-U 15.5.4 and all prior versions.

The addressed vulnerability could allow the attacker to conduct denial-of-service attacks on the affected system via specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service without authentication using Content-Encoding: deflate.

The addressed vulnerability:

SolarWinds Serv-U Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2026- 28318):

  • CVSS: 7.5
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Denial-of-Service

It should be highlighted that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that the vulnerability “CVE-2026-28318” is being actively exploited in the wild.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-28318

Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy this patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

SolarWinds Security Update

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