N Central
CVE-2020-25619
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Impact | CVSS score of 4.4 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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An issue was discovered in SolarWinds N-Central 12.3.0.670. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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An issue was discovered in SolarWinds N-Central 12.3.0.670. The SSH component does not restrict the Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints. An attacker can leverage an SSH feature (port forwarding with a temporary key pair) to access network services on the 127.0.0.1 interface, even though this feature was only intended for user-to-agent communication. 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 SSH component does not restrict the Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints. An attacker can leverage an SSH feature (port forwarding with a temporary key pair) to access network services on the 127.0.0.1 interface, even though this feature was only intended for user-to-agent communication.
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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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