# CVE-2025-26398: SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Hard-coded Cryptographic Key Vulnerability

> Hard-coded cryptographic key allows machine-in-the-middle attacks, requiring local admin access and non-default software.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wmch-r6fm-gmwh

## What is CVE-2025-26398?

CVE-2025-26398 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer was found to contain a hard-coded cryptographic key. If exploited, this vulnerability could lead to a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack against users. This vulnerability requires additional software not installed by default, local access to the server and administrator level privileges on the host.

Weakness: CWE-798 (Use of Hard-coded Credentials)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-26398?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-26398?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-26398 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-26398 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-26398 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

- [CVE-2023-23837](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23837/): No Exception Handling Vulnerability: Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 2023.1 (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2022-38112](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38112/): Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2021-35229](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35229/): Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability using SQL Query (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2023-23838](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23838/): Directory traversal and file enumeration vulnerability: Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 2023.1 (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-33231](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-33231/): XSS in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 2023.2 (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-26398 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-26398 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-26398 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26398/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26398/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-26398
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26398
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-26398

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26398/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.