CVE-2018-20940

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

cPanel before 68.0.27 allows attackers to read root's crontab file during a short time interval upon the enabling of backups (SEC-342).

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 3.3/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

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

Related CVEs from 2018

CVE-2018-209415.6cPanel before 68.0.27 allows arbitrary file-read operations via restore adminbin (SEC-349).CVE-2018-209422.5cPanel before 68.0.27 allows attackers to read root's crontab file during a short time interval upon configuring crontab (SEC-351).CVE-2018-209432.5cPanel before 68.0.27 allows attackers to read root's crontab file during a short time interval upon a post-update task (SEC-352).CVE-2018-209443.3cPanel before 68.0.27 allows attackers to read a copy of httpd.conf that is created during a syntax test (SEC-353).CVE-2018-209455.7bin/csvprocess in cPanel before 68.0.27 allows insecure file operations (SEC-354).CVE-2018-209463.3cPanel before 68.0.27 allows attackers to read zone information because a world-readable archive is created by the archive_sync_zones scriptCVE-2018-209475.5cPanel before 68.0.27 allows certain file-write operations via the telnetcrt script (SEC-356).CVE-2018-209486.1cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self XSS in cPanel Backup Restoration (SEC-383).CVE-2018-209496.1cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self XSS in WHM Apache Configuration Include Editor (SEC-385).CVE-2018-209506.1cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self stored XSS in WHM Account Transfer (SEC-386).CVE-2018-209516.1cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self XSS in WHM Spamd Startup Config (SEC-387).CVE-2018-209526.5cPanel before 68.0.27 creates world-readable files during use of WHM Apache Includes Editor (SEC-388).
CVE-2018-20940: Low severity, CVSS 3.3 | Vulnix