Security News > 2021 > July > SolarWinds issues software update – one it wrote for a change – to patch hole exploited in the wild

SolarWinds has issued an emergency patch after a critical security hole in its Serv-U Managed File Transfer and Serv-U Secure FTP was spotted being exploited in the wild.

The vulnerability, discovered by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center and Offensive Security Research teams, can be exploited by an attacker to achieve remote code execution, and is present in Serv-U version 15.2.3 HF1 and all prior builds.

"A threat actor who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or run programs on the affected system."

"Serv-U version 15.2.3 hotfix 2 has been released," which closes the hole, we're told.

"Microsoft has provided evidence of limited, targeted customer impact, though SolarWinds does not currently have an estimate of how many customers may be directly affected by the vulnerability. SolarWinds is unaware of the identity of the potentially affected customers."

The timing for the patch is also unfortunate as SolarWinds today released estimates for its second financial quarter of 2021, ended June 30, reporting revenues were up around six per cent, year on year, to $262m, although the biz is expecting to dip $11.3m into the red.

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