From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Aug 10 2005 - 09:37:37 CDT

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TITLE:
cPanel Password Change Privilege Escalation Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16362

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16362/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
cPanel 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/5280/

DESCRIPTION:
IHS has discovered a security issue in cPanel, which may allow
malicious users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to an error in handling of user
password changes and can be exploited by a malicious user to gain
access with root user privileges.

Successful exploitation allows a user to access features that are
normally only accessible to privileged users (e.g. create/change
files on web sites hosted by other domains), but requires that the
user unknowingly changes his password to be the same as the root
password and subsequently changes it again.

The security issue has been confirmed in version 10.2.0-R82 and has
also been reported in version 10.4.0-EDGE 254. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Use a strong root password.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Iran Hackers Sabotage

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