Actively Exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE Vulnerability (CVE202540551)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) vulnerability—CVE‑2025‑40551—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, confirming active exploitation in the wild. The flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and enables unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) via deserialization of untrusted data. This vulnerability poses a severe risk to enterprises, government agencies, and critical infrastructure relying on SolarWinds WHD.