CVE-2004-0490
cPanel, when compiling Apache 1.3.29 and PHP with the mod_phpsuexec option, does not set the --enable-discard-path option, which causes…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 4.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- cPanel 5 < 9 - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24141local, linuxpublished 24 May 2004Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 10407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- cpanel-modphpsuexec-execute-commands(16239) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=664 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=283 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20040524 cPanel mod_phpsuexec Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.securiteam.com/tools/5TP0N15CUA.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.a-squad.com/audit/explain10.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-0489 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2004-0490)Record last updated .