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CVE-2018-20943

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20943 is a low-severity vulnerability affecting cPanel versions prior to 68.0.27, allowing a local attacker with low privileges to temporarily read the root user's crontab file during a post-update task. The attack complexity is high, and the impact is limited to information disclosure (CWE-200), with no integrity or availability impact. There is no known public exploit code, Metasploit modules, or evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community or media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 61.9999.55, < 62.0.39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 65.9999.38, < 66.0.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 67.9999.64, < 68.0.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

2.5LOW

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 223 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

documentation.cpanel.net / display/CL/68+Change+Log
Release NotesVendor Advisory