Database Management

Why SolarWinds DPA is not affected by CVE-2024-38821

This article explains why SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPA) is not affected by CVE-2024-38821.

First published date

1/10/2025 3:15 PM

Last published date

1/10/2025 3:39 PM

Overview

In 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a security bulletin about CVE-2024-38821 (© 2025 National Institute of Standards and Technology, available at nvd.nist.gov, obtained on January 10, 2025).

Spring WebFlux applications that have Spring Security authorization rules on static resources can be bypassed under certain circumstances. For this to impact an application, all of the following must be true:

It must be a WebFlux application.
It must be using Spring's static resources support.
It must have a non-permitAll authorization rule applied to the static resources support.

Product section

Database Performance Analyzer

Cause

CVE-2024-38821

Resolution

DPA is not using Spring WebFlux, and DPA is not using Spring's static resources support. Therefore, DPA is not vulnerable to CVE-2024-38821.

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