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.
History

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Webpros
Webpros plesk
Vendors & Products Webpros
Webpros plesk

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:45:00 +0000

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Title Local Privilege Escalation via OS Command Injection in Plesk for Linux

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
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2026-09-01T02:07:41.777Z

Updated: 2026-09-01T13:14:45.804Z

Reserved: 2026-07-29T15:00:02.293Z

Link: CVE-2026-67394

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-01T13:14:41.669Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-01T03:16:50.937

Modified: 2026-09-01T14:17:38.217

Link: CVE-2026-67394

cve-icon Redhat

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