CVE-2018-20940: cPanel

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cPanel before 68.0.27 allows attackers to read root's crontab file during a short time interval upon the enabling of backups (SEC-342).

Affected products

• cPanel cPanel: from 61.9999.55, before 62.0.39 (fixed in 62.0.39); from 65.9999.38, before 66.0.35 (fixed in 66.0.35); from 67.9999.64, before 68.0.27 (fixed in 68.0.27)

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