CVE-2020-15429: Control-Webpanel Webpanel

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of CentOS Web Panel cwp-e17.0.9.8.923. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within ajax_crons.php. When parsing the user parameter, the process does not properly validate a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-9716.

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Published 2020-07-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.