Vulnerability in Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
CVE-2019-8917
SolarWinds Orion NPM before 12.4 suffers from a SYSTEM remote code execution vulnerability in the OrionModuleEngine service. This service establishes a NetTcpBinding endpoint that allows remote, unauthenticated clients to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The InvokeActionMethod method may be abused by an attacker to execute commands as the SYSTEM user.
EPSS: 0.364 (98.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Solarwinds Orion_network_performance_monitor
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-8917?
- CVE-2019-8917 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Monitor. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-02-18.
- How severe is CVE-2019-8917?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2019-8917 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.