CVE-2018-20869

HIGH 7.8CVE-2018-20869 · Published 30/07/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-20869 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting cpanel (cpanel).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.52%, higher than 43.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 76.0.8 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cpanel cpanel	`< 76.0.8`	`76.0.8`

cPanel before 76.0.8 allows arbitrary code execution in the context of the root account via dnssec adminbin (SEC-465).

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