CVE-2021-35248 Unrestricted access to Orion.UserSettings SWIS entity for low-privilege users

What is CVE-2021-35248?

CVE-2021-35248 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SolarWinds Orion, published on 20 Dec 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

It has been reported that any Orion user, e.g. guest accounts can query the Orion.UserSettings entity and enumerate users and their basic settings.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-35248?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Solarwinds Orion Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2021-35248?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-35248 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2021-35248 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-35248 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Orion

• CVE-2020-10148 SolarWinds Orion Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27258 Privilege escalation in Orion Platform Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25274 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-9546 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-13169 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 9.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-qrg3-9cf5-hgw8.