What is CVE-2017-18448?

CVE-2017-18448 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cpanel, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-08-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-18448?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Cpanel

CVE-2017-18448

cPanel before 64.0.21 allows certain file-read operations via a Serverinfo_manpage API call (SEC-252).

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2019-08-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 66.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cpanel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

documentation.cpanel.net/display/CL/64+Change+Log (Product, Release Notes)
news.cpanel.com/cpanel-tsr-2017-0003-full-disclosure/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-18448?: CVE-2017-18448 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cpanel, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-08-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-18448?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.