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Openwebmail in cPanel 5.0, when run using suid Perl, adds...

Low severity Unreviewed Published Apr 29, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 31, 2003
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 29, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2003-1426

GHSA ID

GHSA-g4xf-44vp-f7mq

Source code

No known source code

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