CVE-2004-1604: cPanel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cPanel 9.9.1-RELEASE-3 allows remote authenticated users to chmod arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the _private directory, which is created when Front Page extensions are enabled.

Affected products

• cPanel cPanel: version 9.9.1_r3 only

Published 2004-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.