02 Records
FEED: ACQUIRING
01 RecordSTATE: PUBLISHED
02 Description
CNA: certccSolarWinds Orion API is vulnerable to an authentication bypass that could allow a remote attacker to execute API commands
03 Exploitation and scoring
SRC: CISA, FIRST, NVD, RED HAT- Exploitation
- Exploited in the wild. Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2021-11-03. Federal remediation due 2022-05-03.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationactiveCISA reports credible evidence of active exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.- EPSS probability
- 91.98% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Ranks above 99.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
SCHEMA: 5.1
- Published
- 2020-12-29 21:55Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-10-21 23:35Z10 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-03-05
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-288Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or ChannelBase
- CWE-306Missing Authentication for Critical FunctionBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6ef63c13c32829bac8261caa7f1a762df2eae1231a4c1bb8bd7debfd448ffbf3
05 Affected products
PAIRS: 2VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
SolarWindsOrion Platform2019.4 HF 5, 2020.2 without hotfix, 2020.2 HF 1— SRC: CNA
Users should update to the relevant versions of the SolarWinds Orion Platform:
2019.4 HF 6 (released December 14, 2020)
2020.2.1 HF 2 (released December 15, 2020)
2019.2 SUPERNOVA Patch (released December 23, 2020)
2018.4 SUPERNOVA Patch (released December 23, 2020)
2018.2 SUPERNOVA Patch (released December 23, 2020)