01 Record
CVE-2021-35234
Exposed Dangerous Functions - Privileged Escalation
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: SolarWinds
CNA base score8.0 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
Exposed Dangerous Functions - Privileged Escalation
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.88% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. 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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-12-20 20:08Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 18:59Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-06-22
- Assigning CNA
- SolarWinds
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d07cc38597ed25b5b3084753d6fa7e392090be7e4212968b4ff799ed820a89ff
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- support.solarwinds.comhttps://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Orion-Platform-2020-2-6-Hotfix-3
- documentation.solarwinds.comhttps://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/orionplatform/content/core-secure-configuration.htm
- www.solarwinds.comhttps://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/cve-2021-35234
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1598/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1596/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1604/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1600/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1601/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1602/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1597/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1599/
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttps://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1603/
07 Remediation
The SolarWinds Development Team has created a fix for this vulnerability by revoking permission to non-admin users when running SQL Queries. SolarWinds advises its customers to upgrade to the latest version (2020.2.6 HF3) once it becomes generally available.