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SolarWinds Serv-U Unauthenticated Denial of Service Vulnerability
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L N N U N N H 7.5 .0835 94.5 YES
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Serv-U 15.5.4 and previous versions – —
TIMELINE
Feb 26 Reserved by SolarWinds
Jun 5 Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2026-06-19
Jun 5 Published (CNA: SolarWinds)
Jun 20 DUE DATE PASSED — CVE-2026-28318 (SolarWinds Serv-U). CISA remediation deadline was June 19, 2026; still in catalog.
Jul 22 ENRICHED — CVE-2026-28318 (SolarWinds Serv-U). Received CVSS 7.5 and CPE data from NVD.
Description
SolarWinds Serv-U is susceptible to specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service without authentication using Content-Encoding: deflate. Mitigation steps are provided to secure customer environments in the SolarWinds Trust Center if you are unable to deploy the update
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 5 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| February 26, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by SolarWinds |
| June 5, 2026 | KEV ADDED | Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2026-06-19 |
| June 5, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: SolarWinds) |
| June 20, 2026 | DUE DATE PASSED | DUE DATE PASSED — CVE-2026-28318 (SolarWinds Serv-U). CISA remediation deadline was June 19, 2026; still in catalog. |
| July 22, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2026-28318 (SolarWinds Serv-U). Received CVSS 7.5 and CPE data from NVD. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| SolarWinds | Serv-U | — | 15.5.4 and previous versions | — |
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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-28318 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.