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GHSA-2MJP-RG6Q-CC58

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-01 03:31 – Updated: 2026-09-01 03:31

Details

A critical local privilege escalation via OS command injection vulnerability has been discovered in Plesk for Linux, affecting all versions from 18.0.34 before 18.0.79.9 and 18.0.80.5. The vulnerability allows a customer or reseller with shell access (or allowed to change their own shell access) to elevate privileges to the root account on the hosting server.

Severity

9.0 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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CVE-2026-67394 (GCVE-0-2026-67394)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 02:07 – Updated: 2026-09-01 13:14

Summary

Severity

9 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-01 13:14 UTC

CWE

CWE-78 - OS Command Injection

Assigner

hackerone mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/42968…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
WebPros	Plesk	Affected: 18.0.34 , < 18.0.79.9 (semver) Affected: 18.0.80 , < 18.0.80.5 (semver)

Credits

Aziz Knani

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