CVE-2018-20882: cPanel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cPanel before 74.0.8 allows arbitrary file-write operations in the context of the root account during WHM Force Password Change (SEC-447).

Affected products

• cPanel cPanel: from 69.9999.122, before 70.0.57 (fixed in 70.0.57); from 73.9980.0, before 74.0.8 (fixed in 74.0.8)

Published 2019-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.