What is CVE-2018-10241?

CVE-2018-10241 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Solarwinds Serv-U, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-05-16.

How severe is CVE-2018-10241?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Solarwinds Serv-U

CVE-2018-10241

A denial of service vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U before 15.1.6 HFv1 allows an authenticated user to crash the application (with a NULL pointer dereference) via a specially crafted URL beginning with the /Web%20Client/ substring.

Published 2018-05-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Solarwinds Serv-U

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/05/solarwinds-serv-u-managed-file-transfer-denial-o… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10241?: CVE-2018-10241 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Solarwinds Serv-U, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-05-16.
How severe is CVE-2018-10241?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.