CVE-2018-20873 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can disable the ClamAV daemon, causing a denial of service for antivirus scanning in cPanel installations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-20873?
CVE-2018-20873 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cpanel Cpanel, published on 1 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
cPanel before 74.0.8 allows local users to disable the ClamAV daemon (SEC-409).
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-20873?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cpanel Cpanel.
How do I fix CVE-2018-20873?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-20873 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-20873 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-20873 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-vhfc-33hx-x5w9.