CVE-2004-0490: cPanel

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cPanel, when compiling Apache 1.3.29 and PHP with the mod_phpsuexec option, does not set the --enable-discard-path option, which causes php to use the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable to find and execute a script instead of the PATH_TRANSLATED variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PHP code as other users via a URL that references the attacker's script after the user's script, which executes the attacker's script with the user's privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0529.

Affected products

• cPanel cPanel: version 5.0 only; version 5.3 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.4.1 only; …

Published 2004-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.