$ cve CVE-2004-0490 JSON

CVE-2004-0490 EXPLOIT

7.2

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 4.5% (pctl 91)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

cPanel, when compiling Apache 1.3.29 and PHP with the mod_phpsuexec option, does not set the --enable-discard-path option, which causes php to use the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable to find and execute a script instead of the PATH_TRANSLATED variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PHP code as other users via a URL that references the attacker's script after the user's script, which executes the attacker's script with the user's privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0529.

Scoring

CVSS	7.2 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS	4.47% — more likely to be exploited than 91% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2004-08-18
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
cpanel	cpanel

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	cPanel 5 < 9 - Local Privilege Escalation	2004-05-24

References

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