CVE-2018-20879

MEDIUM 6.3CVE-2018-20879 · Published 01/08/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-20879 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.3) vulnerability affecting cpanel (cpanel).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.99%, higher than 62.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 74.0.8 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cpanel cpanel	`< 74.0.8`	`74.0.8`

cPanel before 74.0.8 allows demo accounts to execute arbitrary code via the Fileman::viewfile API (SEC-444).

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