cPanel up to 11.53.x Email Sending access control

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in cPanel up to 11.53.x. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Email Sending Handler. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-10857. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in cPanel up to 11.53.x (Hosting Control Software). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Email Sending Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

cPanel before 11.54.0.0 allows a bypass of the e-mail sending limit (SEC-60).

The weakness was disclosed 08/01/2019. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-10857 since 07/31/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 11.54.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-139190, VDB-139189, VDB-139188 and VDB-139186 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Hosting Control Software

Name

• cPanel

Version

• 11.0
• 11.1
• 11.2
• 11.3
• 11.4
• 11.5
• 11.6
• 11.7
• 11.8
• 11.9
• 11.10
• 11.11
• 11.12
• 11.13
• 11.14
• 11.15
• 11.16
• 11.17
• 11.18
• 11.19
• 11.20
• 11.21
• 11.22
• 11.23
• 11.24
• 11.25
• 11.26
• 11.27
• 11.28
• 11.29
• 11.30
• 11.31
• 11.32
• 11.33
• 11.34
• 11.35
• 11.36
• 11.37
• 11.38
• 11.39
• 11.40
• 11.41
• 11.42
• 11.43
• 11.44
• 11.45
• 11.46
• 11.47
• 11.48
• 11.49
• 11.50
• 11.51
• 11.52
• 11.53

License

• commercial

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