CVE-2025-40549
CRITICAL
9.1
Our Analysis: General-Purpose
Our model has classified this vulnerability as relevant to General-Purpose Systems, helping your team prioritize efforts effectively.
Published Date
November 18, 2025
Last Modified
December 2, 2025
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
A Path Restriction Bypass vulnerability exists in Serv-U that when abused, could give a malicious actor with access to admin privileges the ability to execute code on a directory.
This issue requires administrative privileges to abuse. On Windows systems, this scored as medium due to differences in how paths and home directories are handled.