Vulnerability in Cpanel

CVE-2004-0490

cPanel, when compiling Apache 1.3.29 and PHP with the mod_phpsuexec option, does not set the --enable-discard-path option, which causes php to use the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable to find and execute a script instead of the PATH_TRANSLATED variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PHP code as other users via a URL that references the attacker's script after the user's script, which executes the attacker's script with the user's privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0529.

EPSS: 0.045 (90.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Cpanel — versions 5.0, 5.3, 6.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References