๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ CVE-2025-40540
๐Ÿ”ด CVSS 9.1 โ€” Critical โœ… No Known Exploit CWE-704 NVD
9.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-704
Public Exploit โœ… No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-24
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-02-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
serv-u โ€” 15.5.4

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