Servers and applications
CVE-2003-1426
Openwebmail in cPanel 5.0, when run using suid Perl, adds the directory in the SCRIPT_FILENAME environment variable to Perl's @INC include array, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying SCRIPT_FILENAME to reference a directory containing a malicious openwebmail-shared.pl executable.
- Severity
- Low 3.3
- Published
- 31 Dec 2003
- Last changed
- 16 Jun 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 1 Nov 2026
- Exploit chance
- 0.5% in the next 30 daysHigher than 40% of CVEs. EPSS by FIRST, 12 Nov 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-16
- Attack
- Needs local access · No login needed
- Attacker can
- Read some data · Change some data
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Sources
- NVD
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
cPanel & WHMServers and applications · cpe:a:cpanel:cpanel |
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