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cPanel TSR-2014-0006 Announcement

cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system.


cPanel has rated these updates as having security impact levels of Moderate.

Information on cPanel’s security ratings is available at http://go.cpanel.net/securitylevels.

If your deployed cPanel & WHM servers are configured to automatically update when new releases are available, then no action is required. Your systems will update automatically. If you have disabled automatic updates, then we strongly encourage you to update your cPanel & WHM installations at your earliest convenience.

RELEASES

The following cPanel & WHM versions address all known vulnerabilities:

* 11.44.1.11 & Greater
* 11.42.1.25 & Greater
* 11.40.1.20 & Greater

The latest public releases of cPanel & WHM for all update tiers are available at http://httpupdate.cpanel.net.

SECURITY ISSUE INFORMATION

The cPanel security team identified the resolved security issue. There is no reason to believe that this vulnerability is known to the public. As such, cPanel will only release limited information about the vulnerability at this time.

Once sufficient time has passed, allowing cPanel & WHM systems to automatically update to the new version, cPanel will release additional information about the nature of this security issue.

Additional information is scheduled for release on August 11th, 2014.

For information on cPanel & WHM Versions and the Release Process, read our documentation at:
http://go.cpanel.net/versionformat.

If you would like to sign up for Security notices, please go to http://cpanel.net/mailing-lists.

For the PGP-signed message, see http://cpanel.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/TSR-2014-0006-Announcement.txt.