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CVE-2022-38108

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2022-10-20
  • Fixed in2020.2.6
  • WeaknessCWE-502

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Description

SolarWinds Platform was susceptible to the Deserialization of Untrusted Data. This vulnerability allows a remote adversary with Orion admin-level account access to SolarWinds Web Console to execute arbitrary commands.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2022-10-2021:15CVE publishedNVD

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-11-03 21:37 UTC
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Versions per branch

NVD
Solarwinds orion platform
BranchAffectedFixed in
2020.2< 2020.2.62020.2.6
2020.2= 2020.2.6no fix published
2022.2= 2022.2no fix published
2022.3= 2022.3no fix published

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Products declared by the CNA2 products

As SolarWinds, the CNA that assigned this CVE, declared them in the CVE record; versions as written.

  • SolarWinds Platform
    Affected
    • ≤ 2022.3 and prior versionsno fix statedcustom
  • SolarWinds Orion Platform
    Affected
    • ≤ 2020.2.6 HF5 and prior versionsno fix statedcustom

Source: the CNA record (CVE Program), © The MITRE Corporation,CVE Terms of UseCVE recordupdated 2023-03-28

Fix

  1. Update Solarwinds orion platform to 2020.2.6

Advisories and patches

Detection

Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
none listed
PoC-in-GitHub
Metasploit modules
1 moduleexploit/windows/misc/solarwinds_amqp_deserializationrank: excellentModule metadata: Metasploit Framework, © Rapid7, Inc., BSD-3-Clause.
Metasploit Framework

Sources

Identifiers

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2022-10-20
Last Modified
2026-06-17
NVD status
Modified
GitHub Advisory
GHSA-23mm-62vv-wv83

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-38108?

SolarWinds Platform was susceptible to the Deserialization of Untrusted Data. This vulnerability allows a remote adversary with Orion admin-level account access to SolarWinds Web Console to execute arbitrary commands.

Is CVE-2022-38108 actively exploited?

A proof-of-concept exploit exists for CVE-2022-38108, but active exploitation has not been confirmed at this time.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2022-38108?

CVE-2022-38108 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.2 (HIGH severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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