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CVE-2021-31474

79
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-31474 is a critical deserialization vulnerability affecting SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 2020.2.1. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges due to insufficient validation of user-supplied data within the SolarWinds.Serialization library. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability potential, the vulnerability presents a severe risk. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or active exploitation (KEV, Hot List) has been confirmed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential impact remains significant.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2020.2.1, < 2020.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:network_performance_monitor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
94.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9443 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

documentation.solarwinds.com / en/success_center/sam/content/release_notes/sam_2020-2-5_release_notes.htm
Release NotesVendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-21-602
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry