CVE-2025-40545
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Open Redirection Vulnerability
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is susceptible to an open redirection vulnerability. The URL is not properly sanitized, and an attacker could manipulate the string to redirect a user to a malicious site. The attack complexity is high, and authentication is required.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Open Redirection Vulnerability
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is susceptible to an open redirection vulnerability. The URL is not properly sanitized, and an attacker could manipulate the string to redirect a user to a malicious site. The attack complexity is high, and authentication is required.
- Record
CVE-2025-40545- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-601
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-197926
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is susceptible to an open redirection vulnerability. The URL is not properly sanitized, and an attacker could manipulate the string to redirect a user to a malicious site. The attack complexity is high, and authentication is required.
- Record
EUVD-2025-197926- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-78p5-9w95-jc9j
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is susceptible to an open redirection vulnerability. The URL...
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is susceptible to an open redirection vulnerability. The URL is not properly sanitized, and an attacker could manipulate the string to redirect a user to a malicious site. The attack complexity is high, and authentication is required.
- Record
GHSA-78p5-9w95-jc9j- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-601
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is susceptible to an open redirection vulnerability. The URL is not properly sanitized, and an attacker could manipulate the string to redirect a user to a malicious site. The attack complexity is high, and authentication is required.
- Record
CVE-2025-40545- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-601
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-40545 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Solarwinds Observability Self-hosted, published November 18, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.26%, the 17th percentile. No source names a fixed version.