CVE-2020-15424

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-15424 · Published 28/07/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-15424 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting webpanel (control-webpanel).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.1%, higher than 94.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
webpanel control-webpanel	`= 0.9.8.923`	No fix yet

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of CentOS Web Panel cwp-e17.0.9.8.923. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within ajax_mod_security.php. When parsing the domain parameter, the process does not properly validate a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-9735.

References

zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-741 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

webpanel

control-webpanel

= 0.9.8.923

No fix yet

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