cPanel up to 78.0.17 SSL Certificate Storage information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in cPanel up to 78.0.17. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component SSL Certificate Storage. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-14399. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in cPanel up to 78.0.17 (Hosting Control Software). This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component SSL Certificate Storage. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The SSL certificate-storage feature in cPanel before 78.0.18 allows unsafe file operations in the context of the root account (SEC-477).

The weakness was disclosed 07/30/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at documentation.cpanel.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-14399 since 07/29/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 78.0.18 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-139008, VDB-139009, VDB-139010 and VDB-139011 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Hosting Control Software

Name

• cPanel

Version

• 78.0.0
• 78.0.1
• 78.0.2
• 78.0.3
• 78.0.4
• 78.0.5
• 78.0.6
• 78.0.7
• 78.0.8
• 78.0.9
• 78.0.10
• 78.0.11
• 78.0.12
• 78.0.13
• 78.0.14
• 78.0.15
• 78.0.16
• 78.0.17

License

• commercial

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