Security Compliance

Why SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is not affected by CVE-2026-55200

This article explains why SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is not affected by CVE-2026-55200.

First published date

7/7/2026 3:07 PM

Last published date

7/7/2026 3:07 PM

Overview

In 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a security bulletin about CVE-2026-55200, a vulnerability affecting libssh2.

Product section

Security Event Manager

Cause

CVE-2026-55200 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the ssh2_transport_read() function affecting libssh2 versions up to 1.11.1 in Linux based systems.

Resolution

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) does not invoke the vulnerable function and does not use the libssh2 component and is therefore not affected by the vulnerability.

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