critical
CVE-2026-41940
cPanel / WHM authentication bypass - unauthenticated administrative control of the hosting server, all supported versions
- Severity
- critical
- Affected product
- cPanel / WHM
- Affected versions
- cPanel / WHM all versions before the fix
- Detection basis
- Appliance fingerprint
- Shipped rule
- cPanel / WHM: cPanel / WHM authentication bypass - unauthenticated administrative control of the hosting server, all supported versions
- Added to NewScan
- 2026-08-06
- Detected by
- NewScan — free, self-hosted
How NewScan reports it
APPLIANCE FINGERPRINT
NewScan fingerprints the cPanel / WHM appliance and reports this CVE when the detected version falls inside the affected range below.
References
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