{"id":9771,"date":"2026-09-09T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/new-cpanel-flaw-lets-a-hosting-account-with-mail-privileges-run-code-as-root\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:13:57","slug":"new-cpanel-flaw-lets-a-hosting-account-with-mail-privileges-run-code-as-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/new-cpanel-flaw-lets-a-hosting-account-with-mail-privileges-run-code-as-root\/","title":{"rendered":"New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account With Mail Privileges Run Code as Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bcPanel has patched a flaw that it says lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server. An authenticated account holder with mail-related privileges can create files of their choosing on the server through EmailTrack and, from there, run code as the root user.<\/p>\n<p>cPanel published the\u00a0advisory on September 8\u00a0and says every supported version of cPanel and WHM is affected.\u00a0cPanel has patched a flaw that it says lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server. An authenticated account holder with mail-related privileges can create files of their choosing on the server through EmailTrack and, from there, run code as the root user.<\/p>\n<p>cPanel published the\u00a0advisory on September 8\u00a0and says every supported version of cPanel and WHM is affected.\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bcPanel has patched a flaw that it says lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server. An authenticated account holder with mail-related privileges can create files of their choosing on the server through EmailTrack and, from there, run code as the root user. cPanel published the\u00a0advisory on September 8\u00a0and says every supported&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/new-cpanel-flaw-lets-a-hosting-account-with-mail-privileges-run-code-as-root\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account With Mail Privileges Run Code as Root<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}