CVE-2021-25274 is a critical vulnerability affecting the SolarWinds Orion Platform before version 2020.2.4. It allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution as LocalSystem due to insecure deserialization of messages sent to the Collector Service's private MSMQ queues on TCP port 1801. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a network-exploitable, low-complexity attack with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting high awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2020.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:orion_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.