Security News > 2021 > March > Another Critical RCE Flaw Discovered in SolarWinds Orion Platform

IT infrastructure management provider SolarWinds on Thursday released a new update to its Orion networking monitoring tool with fixes for four security vulnerabilities, counting two weaknesses that could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution.

Chief among them is a JSON deserialization flaw that allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code via the test alert actions feature available in the Orion Web Console, which lets users simulate network events that can be configured to trigger an alert during setup.

A second issue concerns a high-risk vulnerability that could be leveraged by an adversary to achieve RCE in the Orion Job Scheduler.

"In order to exploit this, an attacker first needs to know the credentials of an unprivileged local account on the Orion Server," SolarWinds said in its release notes.

Besides the aforementioned two flaws, the update squashes two other bugs, including a high-severity stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the "Add custom tab" within customize view page and a reverse tabnabbing and open redirect vulnerability in the custom menu item options page, both of which require an Orion administrator account for successful exploitation.

Orion users are recommended to update to the latest release, "Orion Platform 2020.2.5," to mitigate the risk associated with the security issues.

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