cPanel entropysearch.cgi Username User information disclosure

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in cPanel. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file entropysearch.cgi. Such manipulation of the argument Username leads to information disclosure (User). The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in cPanel (Hosting Control Software) (unknown version) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file entropysearch.cgi. The manipulation of the argument username with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (User). 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.

The weakness was presented 01/11/2017 by Omid with Open Security as Multiple Vulnerabilities in cPanel as not defined mailinglist post (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at seclists.org. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project. The advisory points out:

Any unauthorized visitor can find valid system users. POC : If the hacker calls "entropysearch.cgi" script with an invalid username, the error message will be : "Could not chdir into /.htmltemplates: No such file or directory"

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 36 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

The mailinglist post contains the following remark:

cPanel believes that these are not security vulnerabilities, so the issue already exist.

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• Hosting Control Software

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• cPanel

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• commercial

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