CVE-2024-28995SolarWinds Serv-U L Directory Transversal Vulnerability
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 99.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 17 Jul 2024
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
SolarWinds Serv-U was susceptible to a directory transversal vulnerability that would allow access to read sensitive files on the host machine.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as SolarWinds Serv-U Path Traversal Vulnerability.
- Added
- 17 Jul 2024
- Fix due (US federal)
- 7 Aug 2024
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 17 Jul 2024.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- SolarWinds Serv-U Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/gather/solarwinds_servu_fileread_cve_2024_28995Rank normal
Nuclei templates1 template
- SolarWinds Serv-U - Directory Traversal (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-28995.yamlSeverity high
Exploit-DB1 entry
- SolarWinds Serv-U 15.4.2 HF1 - Directory Traversal (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52311remote, multiplepublished 29 May 2025Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By SolarWinds
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| SolarWindsCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 99.6% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
SolarWinds · SolarWinds Serv-U
- affected 15.4.2 HF 1 and previous versions
What to do
Solution: SolarWinds recommends that customers upgrade to SolarWinds Serv-U 15.4.2 HF 2 as soon as it becomes available.
References
References2
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-26057 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-28995)Record last updated .