N Central
CVE-2020-25618
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization OS command sanitization, avoid shell exec
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An issue was discovered in SolarWinds N-Central 12.3.0.670. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Avoid passing user input to shell commands. Use language-specific APIs instead of shell execution. Apply strict input validation with allowlists.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as OS Command Injection (CWE-78), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host. An issue was discovered in SolarWinds N-Central 12.3.0.670. The sudo configuration has incorrect access control because the nable web user account is effectively able to run arbitrary OS commands as root (i.e., the use of root privileges is not limited to specific programs listed in the sudoers file). Affected products include: Solarwinds N-Central.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An issue was discovered in SolarWinds N-Central 12.3.0.670. The sudo configuration has incorrect access control because the nable web user account is effectively able to run arbitrary OS commands as root (i.e., the use of root privileges is not limited to specific programs listed in the sudoers file).
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Attack Technique
OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Pre-authentication remote code execution in N-able N-central before 2026.3.1.14 allows unauthenticated remote attackers
Authentication bypass and account takeover in N-able N-central through version 2026.3.1 stem from an incomplete remediat
Authentication bypass in N-able N-central through version 2026.1 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to circumvent a
N-able N-central remote monitoring and management platform versions before 2025.4 contain multiple XML External Entity i
N-able N-central before 2025.3.1 contains an OS command injection through improper input validation, companion vulnerabi
N-able N-central before 2025.3.1 contains a deserialization vulnerability allowing local code execution through crafted
The N-central server is vulnerable to an authentication bypass of the user interface. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8)
SolarWinds N-central through 2020.1 allows session hijacking and requires user interaction or physical access. Rated hig
Authentication bypass in N-able N-central before version 2026.3 HF 3 permits low-privileged authenticated users to acces
SolarWinds N-central before 12.1 SP1 HF5 and 12.2 before SP1 HF2 allows remote attackers to retrieve cleartext domain ad
Unauthenticated remote access to restricted internal APIs is possible in N-able N-central due to an incomplete access co
The N-central Software Probe < 2025.4 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via deserialization. Rated critical severit
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