SolarWinds Web Help Desk Security Control Bypass Vulnerability

SolarWinds Web Help Desk

SolarWinds Web Help Desk contains a security control bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to certain restricted functionality. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-02-12 (federal deadline 2026-02-15).

First seen: 12 Feb 2026
Last update: 12 Feb 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2025-40536
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: Enterprise apps

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## SolarWinds Web Help Desk Security Control Bypass Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: SolarWinds Web Help Desk
Ids: CVE-2025-40536

SolarWinds Web Help Desk contains a security control bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to certain restricted functionality. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-02-12 (federal deadline 2026-02-15).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (erp). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2025-40536") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/whd/content/release_notes/whd_2026-1_release_notes.htm https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40536 https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-40536
https://pwned.coffee/i/solarwinds-web-help-desk-security-control-bypass-vulnera-cve-2025-40536

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