CVE-2019-8917
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 36.4% (pctl 98)
Patch early
EPSS 36.4% — above the 10% action threshold.
Description
SolarWinds Orion NPM before 12.4 suffers from a SYSTEM remote code execution vulnerability in the OrionModuleEngine service. This service establishes a NetTcpBinding endpoint that allows remote, unauthenticated clients to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The InvokeActionMethod method may be abused by an attacker to execute commands as the SYSTEM user.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 36.45% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2019-02-18 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| solarwinds | orion network performance monitor |
References
→ the Explorer · watch your stack · NVD