01 Record
CVE-2019-20496
cPanel before 82.0.18 allows attackers to conduct arbitrary chown operations as root during log processing (SEC-532).
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
cPanel before 82.0.18 allows attackers to conduct arbitrary chown operations as root during log processing (SEC-532).
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.29% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 21.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-03-17 14:30Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 02:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-03-05
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 980b7d4966261b80471c4e4f2b31b5bb9820862dec26478cc0ddf8cb7ac8915d
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- documentation.cpanel.nethttps://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CL/82+Change+Log