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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Disable shell access for customers or resellers if it is not required (make sure their service plan does not allow to change it)

History

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

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First Time appeared Webpros
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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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2026-67394

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

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

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

Link: CVE-2026-67394

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-01T04:00:12Z

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