Critical vulnerability in cPanel leads to widespread exploitation

BLUF

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability is experiencing widespread global exploitation activity, enabling attackers to gain unauthorised administrative access, establish persistent footholds, conduct remote code execution, and compromise millions of exposed infrastructure systems.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the operational impact of authentication bypass vulnerabilities in large-scale hosting infrastructure.
• Assess how exploitation activity, scanning, and brute-force attempts indicate active cyber threat campaigns.