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CVE-2025-40551 Unmapped

SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

Vendor / product
SolarWinds — Web Help Desk
Description (CISA)
SolarWinds Web Help Desk contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution, which would allow an attacker to run commands on the host machine. This could be exploited without authentication.
Added to KEV
2026-02-03 — after the latest CTID mapping snapshot (2025-07-28)
Due date
2026-02-06
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.
Known ransomware use
Unknown
CWE
CWE-502
CISA notes
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2025-40551
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40551
Elsewhere
cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON

ATT&CK techniques

No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.

The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2025-40551. This entry was added to KEV on 2026-02-03, after that snapshot; of the 283 entries added since, 0 have a mapping. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-502) — here is why — and does not guess.

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Sigma rules tagged with this CVE

1 rule in SigmaHQ carries the tag cve.2025-40551. These are shown as detection content for the CVE itself. Their ATT&CK tags are deliberately not rendered here: a rule author's tag is not an authoritative statement of how the vulnerability is exploited, and this page does not show techniques for unmapped entries.

Author: Huntress Team, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) · 2026-02-11 · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 8c7f4a2d-3b9e-4f1c-9a6d-2e8f5c3d9a1b
Detects suspicious child processes spawned by SolarWinds WebHelpDesk (WHD) application, which may indicate exploitation activity leveraging RCE vulnerabilities such as CVE-2025-40551, CVE-2025-40536, or CVE-2025-26399
CVE tags: CVE-2025-26399CVE-2025-40536CVE-2025-40551