cPanel 'wwwact' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:29277

Info

cPanel 'wwwact' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 29277
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-2478
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 19 2008 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:28PM
Credit: Ali Jasbi
Vulnerable: cPanel cPanel 11.21 -BETA
cPanel cPanel 11.18.4
cPanel cPanel 11.18.3
cPanel cPanel 11.4.19
cPanel cPanel 11.0
cPanel cPanel 10.9.1
cPanel cPanel 10.9 build 134
cPanel cPanel 10.9 build 125
cPanel cPanel 10.9
cPanel cPanel 10.8.2 118
cPanel cPanel 10.8.1 113
cPanel cPanel 10.8.1 (build 84)
cPanel cPanel 10.6 .0-R137
cPanel cPanel 10.2 .0-R82
cPanel cPanel 11.18.3-R21703
cPanel cPanel 11 beta
cPanel cPanel 11
cPanel cPanel 10
cPanel cPanel 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

cPanel 'wwwact' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

cPanel is prone to a remote privilege-escalation vulnerability because of an unspecified error.

Successfully exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges to the affected application and execute malicious PHP code in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate a compromise of the webserver and the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.

Exploit / POC

cPanel 'wwwact' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following proof of concept demonstrates this issue:

Solution / Fix

cPanel 'wwwact' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

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cPanel 'wwwact' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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