CVE-2019-8917

high-risk
Published 2019-02-18

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.

Do I need to act?

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36.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 64% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Solarwinds

References (4)

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107061
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2019-001.md
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107061
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2019-001.md
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 16/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal