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.

EPSS: 0.005 (37.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Cpanel — versions 5.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References