SolarWinds Serv-U Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2026-06-05
Federal due date
2026-06-19
Vendor
SolarWinds
Product
Serv-U
EPSS
91.4th percentile (score 0.067, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
7.5 (HIGH)
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28318

CISA short 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.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

NVD description

SolarWinds Serv-U is susceptible to specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service without authentication using Content-Encoding: deflate. Mitigation steps are provided to secure customer environments in the SolarWinds Trust Center if you are unable to deploy the update

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.