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CVE-2020-15435

9.8 criticalEPSS 8.4%

Critical (9.8) in control-webpanel webpanel. EPSS 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of CentOS Web Panel cwp-e17.0.9.8.923. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within ajax_dashboard.php. When parsing the service_start parameter, the process does not properly validate a user-supplied string before using it to execute a system call. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-9719.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-78
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

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