CVE-2021-38589

HIGH 8.1CVE-2021-38589 · Published 11/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-38589 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.1) vulnerability affecting cpanel (cpanel).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.85%, higher than 58.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 11.96.0.13 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cpanel cpanel	`< 11.96.0.13`	`11.96.0.13`

In cPanel before 96.0.13, scripts/fix-cpanel-perl does not properly restrict the overwriting of files (SEC-588).

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