Description
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.
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Remediation
Vendor Workaround
Disable shell access for customers or resellers if it is not required (make sure their service plan does not allow to change it)
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History
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:45:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
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cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: hackerone
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-01T02:07:41.777Z
Reserved: 2026-07-29T15:00:02.293Z
Link: CVE-2026-67394
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