PT-2003-2371 · Perl+2 · Perl+2

Published 2003-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2003-1426

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cPanel version 5.0

Description The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the SCRIPT FILENAME environment variable to reference a directory containing a malicious openwebmail-shared.pl executable. This is possible because Openwebmail in cPanel, when run using suid Perl, adds the directory in the SCRIPT FILENAME environment variable to Perl's @INC include array.

Recommendations For cPanel version 5.0, consider restricting access to the openwebmail-shared.pl executable until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using suid Perl to run Openwebmail. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-16

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-1426

Affected Products

Open Webmail

Perl

Cpanel

References · 5

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/6885 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1426 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11357 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0087.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-1426 · Note