What is CVE-2021-27240?

CVE-2021-27240 is a high-severity vulnerability in Solarwinds Patch Manager, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2021-03-29.

How severe is CVE-2021-27240?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Deserialization in Solarwinds Patch Manager

CVE-2021-27240

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Patch Manager 2020.2.1. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to expl…

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.006 (70.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Solarwinds Patch Manager — versions 2020.2.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-207/ (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-27240?: CVE-2021-27240 is a high-severity vulnerability in Solarwinds Patch Manager, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2021-03-29.
How severe is CVE-2021-27240?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.