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Why SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) and Web Help Desk (WHD) are not affected by CVE-2025-46701

This article explains why SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) and Web Help Desk (WHD) are not affected by CVE-2025-46701. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) and Web Help Desk (WHD) do not use CGIServlet. By default, this CGI support is disabled in Tomcat. To enable CGI support, the affected component needs to be defined in either the application's web.xml file or Tomcat’s web.xml, and this servlet is not defined in DPA’s web.xml file.

First published date

6/18/2025 9:34 PM

Last published date

7/18/2025 6:49 PM

Overview

In 2025, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a security bulletin about CVE-2025-46701.

CVE-2025-46701 is a security constraint bypass vulnerability that applies to the pathInfo component of a URI mapped to the CGI servlet.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.6, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.40, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.104.

The vulnerability described in this CVE affects numerous software companies, but it does not impact SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) or Web Help Desk (WHD).

Product section

Database Performance Analyzer

Cause

CVE-2025-46701

Resolution

This vulnerability affects only applications that enable a non-default servlet, CGIServlet.

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