Arbitrary Code Execution via Openwebmail in cPanel 5.0

CVE-2003-1426 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Openwebmail in cPanel 5.0, when run using suid Perl, adds the directory in the SCRIPT_FILENAME environment variable to Perl's @INC include array, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying SCRIPT_FILENAME to reference a directory containing a malicious openwebmail-shared.pl executable.

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