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Why SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is not affected by CVE-2026-22745

This article explains why SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is not affected by CVE-2026-22745.

First published date

9/8/2026 5:25 PM

Last published date

9/8/2026 5:25 PM

Overview

In 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a security bulletin about CVE-2026-22745.

NVD-CVE-2026-22745

Product section

Database Performance Analyzer

Cause

CVE-2026-22745 is characterized by Spring MVC and WebFlux applications being vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks when resolving static resources. More precisely, an application can be vulnerable when all the following are true: * the application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux * the application is serving static resources from the file system * the application is running on a Windows platform When all the conditions above are met, the attacker can send malicious requests that are slow to resolve and that can keep HTTP connections in use. This can cause a Denial of Service on the application.

Resolution

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is not affected by CVE-2026-22745.

The vulnerability requires an application to resolve static resources through Spring MVC's ResourceHttpRequestHandler chain pointed to a file-system location. The application does not register or invoke this handler.

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