CVE-2022-36957 (GCVE-0-2022-36957)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-20 20:08 – Updated: 2025-05-05 20:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
SolarWinds Platform Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Summary
SolarWinds Platform was susceptible to the Deserialization of Untrusted Data. This vulnerability allows a remote adversary with Orion admin-level account access to SolarWinds Web Console to execute arbitrary commands.
Severity
7.2 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-05 20:01 UTC
CWE
- CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SolarWinds | SolarWinds Platform |
Affected:
unspecified , ≤ 2022.3 and prior versions
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| SolarWinds | Orion Platform |
Affected:
unspecified , ≤ 2020.2.6 HF5 and prior versions
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2022-10-19 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.