CVE-2021-35240: SolarWinds Orion Platform

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CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.011 · 65th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: SolarWinds) at 31 Aug 2021, 15:57 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
SolarWinds	Orion Platform	affected 2020.2.6 and previous versions to before 2020.2.6 HF1 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2021-35240

CNA

SolarWinds

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-79

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.5	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L	CNA (SolarWinds)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.011, the 65th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 Aug 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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