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CVE-2021-38585:
cPanel vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The WHM Locale Upload feature in cPanel before version 98.0.1 contains a vulnerability that allows unserialization attacks, identified as CVE-2021-38585 (SEC-585). This vulnerability was disclosed on August 11, 2021 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-502 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data) and requires high privileges but no user interaction for exploitation (NVD).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability could lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. The vulnerability allows unserialization attacks which could potentially lead to remote code execution or other serious security implications (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in cPanel version 98.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to mitigate the risk (NVD, Vendor Advisory).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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