Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in cPanel - CVE-2016-10840
Published: August 1, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30960
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10840
CWE-ID:
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
cPanel before 11.54.0.4 allows arbitrary code execution during locale duplication (SEC-72).
Affected software
cPanel
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10840
Install update from vendor's website.
cPanel - update to 11.54.0.4