CVE-2018-20882

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

cPanel before 74.0.8 allows arbitrary file-write operations in the context of the root account during WHM Force Password Change (SEC-447).

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 1, 2019
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

Related CVEs from 2018

CVE-2018-208836.5cPanel before 74.0.8 allows FTP access during account suspension (SEC-449).CVE-2018-208845.4cPanel before 74.0.0 allows stored XSS in the WHM File Restoration interface (SEC-367).CVE-2018-208855.3cPanel before 74.0.0 allows Apache HTTP Server configuration injection because of DocumentRoot variable interpolation (SEC-416).CVE-2018-208865.3cPanel before 74.0.0 insecurely stores phpMyAdmin session files (SEC-418).CVE-2018-208879.8cPanel before 74.0.0 allows SQL injection during database backups (SEC-420).CVE-2018-208885.5cPanel before 74.0.0 allows file modification in the context of the root account because of incorrect HTTP authentication (SEC-424).CVE-2018-208894.4cPanel before 74.0.0 allows certain file-read operations via password file caching (SEC-425).CVE-2018-208904.3cPanel before 74.0.0 allows arbitrary zone file modifications during record edits (SEC-426).CVE-2018-208915.5cPanel before 74.0.0 allows arbitrary file-read operations during File Restoration (SEC-436).CVE-2018-208924.3cPanel before 74.0.0 allows arbitrary zone file modifications because of incorrect CAA record handling (SEC-439).CVE-2018-208932.3cPanel before 74.0.0 allows file-rename operations during account renames (SEC-442).CVE-2018-208943.3cPanel before 74.0.0 makes web-site contents accessible to other local users via Git repositories (SEC-443).
CVE-2018-20882: Medium severity, CVSS 6.8 | Vulnix