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Low
CVE-2003-1426
Openwebmail in cPanel 5.0, when run using suid Perl, adds...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Affected Vendor
cpanel
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Vulnerable Versions:
5.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 20th, 2007
Last Modified:
August 8th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.