SolarWinds Observability
CVE-2025-26392
MEDIUM
Severity by source
AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Web-console SQLi is normally network-reachable (AV:N vs vendor AV:A) and needs a low-priv login (PR:L); description cites only data display, so C:L with I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from NVD.
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionNVD
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is susceptible to SQL injection vulnerability that may display sensitive data using a low-level account. This vulnerability requires authentication from a low-privilege account.
AnalysisAI
Authenticated SQL injection in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted allows an attacker holding a low-privilege account to read data beyond that account's authorization by supplying crafted input to a SQL-injectable field in the application. The vendor rates this CVSS 4.6 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N), reflecting limited confidentiality and integrity impact rather than full database compromise or service disruption; our independent assessment keeps the same low-privilege authentication prerequisite and limited confidentiality impact, but raises the attack vector to network-reachable (AV:N) and treats integrity impact as none, since the practical outcome is information disclosure. Vendor patches are available, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis - the risk profile is a low-to-moderate priority requiring an already-obtained credential rather than an urgent, remotely exploitable flaw.
Technical ContextAI
The issue is a classic CWE-89 SQL injection in the database query layer of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (the product line associated with the HCO/Hybrid Cloud Observability release notes). User-supplied input reaching a query is not safely parameterized, so a crafted value can alter the query's logic and return rows the session is not entitled to see. Exploitation is not pre-authentication: the CVSS vector carries PR:L, meaning the attacker must first hold a valid low-privilege ('low-level') account, and must then supply the malicious input to the injectable field. The vendor vector also specifies AV:A, implying the attacker is positioned on an adjacent or management network segment rather than the open internet, while our independent assessment uses AV:N because the service is typically network-accessible - either way, the impact ceiling (C:L, no availability impact, and at most I:L per the vendor) is data disclosure, not full database control or code execution. The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:observability_self-hosted:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* uses a wildcard version, indicating the advisory covers the product family collectively rather than a single build.
RemediationAI
Apply the vendor patch: SolarWinds has published a fix for CVE-2025-26392, with details in the SolarWinds trust-center advisory (https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2025-26392) and the associated HCO 2025-4 release notes (https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/release_notes/hco_2025-4_release_notes.htm); upgrade to the release documented there rather than relying on any interim workaround. If immediate upgrade is not feasible, prioritize compensating controls that address the authenticated, low-privilege prerequisite and the adjacent-network exposure implied by the vendor's AV:A vector: restrict reachability of the Observability Self-Hosted web/API interfaces to trusted management subnets via firewall or ACL rules (trade-off: remote administration from other segments must route through a jump host), and place the platform behind an authenticated reverse proxy with strong MFA (trade-off: added latency and a proxy to maintain). Because the attacker needs a valid low-privilege account, audit and trim account inventories, rotate credentials for low-privilege and service accounts, and remove stale or shared logins; enable and review database query logging for anomalous or unusually broad SELECT activity from low-privilege sessions (trade-off: log volume and storage growth). None of these controls fully close the injection point - they only reduce reachability and detect abuse - so scheduling the vendor upgrade remains the primary remediation.
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