Vulnerability in Cpanel
CVE-2003-1426
Openwebmail in cPanel 5.0, when run using suid Perl, adds the directory in the SCRIPT_FILENAME environment variable to Perl's @INC include array, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying SCRIPT_FILENAME to reference a directory containing a malicious openwebmail-shared.pl executable.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (37.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 37.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Cpanel — versions 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/6885 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0087.html (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11357 (vdb-entry)