Database Management

Why SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is not affected by CVE-2026-53434

This article explains why SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is not affected by CVE-2026-53434.

First published date

9/22/2026 3:34 PM

Last published date

9/22/2026 3:34 PM

Overview

In 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a security bulletin about CVE-2026-53434.

NVD-CVE-2026-53434

Product section

Database Performance Analyzer

Cause

CVE-2026-53434 is a detection of Error Condition Without Action vulnerability in Apache Tomcat when configuring CRLs for a FFM based connector.

Resolution

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is not affected by CVE-2026-53434.

This vulnerability requires an application to have the Tomcat connector use the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) SSL implementation along with a crlFile attribute on SSLHostConfig. DPA does not use either of the settings in the application.

While the component’s presence is flagged by dependency scanning tools, our analysis shows there is no associated security risk.

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