CVE-2021-35252

Common Key Vulnerability in Serv-U FTP Server

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Dec 16, 2022
Updated: Apr 17, 2025
Reserved: Jun 22, 2021

Description

Common encryption key appears to be used across all deployed instances of Serv-U FTP Server. Because of this an encrypted value that is exposed to an attacker can be simply recovered to plaintext.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	SolarWinds

Weaknesses

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Serv-U FTP ServerSolarWinds	15.3.0Affected

References

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/servu/content/release_notes/servu_15-3-2_release_notes.htm
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-35252
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2021-35252

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