An elevation of privilege in Vesta Control Panel through 0.9.8-26 allows an attacker to gain root system access from the admin account via v-change-user-password (aka the user password change script).
https://gitlab.com/snippets/1954764
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 2020-04-21
Updated: 2026-06-17
Base Score: 9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.00433