NVD / CVE Program· CNA SolarWinds

CVE-2022-36960: SolarWinds Platform Improper Input Validation

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.96% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 61.9% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

SolarWinds Platform was susceptible to Improper Input Validation. This vulnerability allows a remote adversary with valid access to SolarWinds Web Console to escalate user privileges.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Nov 29, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.9% · 61th percentile
CWE: CWE-20

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.9%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 8.8
CNA · SolarWinds: 8.8; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
solarwinds	orion platform	cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:orion_platform

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

solarwinds orion platformbefore 2020.2.6
solarwinds orion platform2020.2.6
solarwinds orion platform2022.2
solarwinds orion platform2022.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (SolarWinds). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

SolarWinds Orion Platform
- 2020.2.6 HF5 and prior versions and later · up to and including 2020.2.6 HF5affected
SolarWinds SolarWinds Platform
- 2022.3 and prior versions and later · before 2022.3affected

Same product

solarwinds: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-10148SolarWinds Orion API is vulnerable to an authentication bypass that could allow a remote attacker to execute API commandsKEV
97Now
CVE-2022-36958SolarWinds Platform Deserialization of Untrusted Data
60This week
CVE-2021-35218Chart Endpoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
58Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-36966Oct 20, 2022 · Insecure Direct Object Reference Vulnerability: Orion Platform 2020.2.6
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-38108Oct 20, 2022 · SolarWinds Platform Deserialization of Untrusted Data
48Plan
Later →CVE-2022-36962Nov 29, 2022 · SolarWinds Platform Command Injection
31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Piotr Bazydlo (@chudypb)Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting on the issue in a responsible manner.finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope