CISA has given federal agencies three days to address CVE-2026-48172, an actively exploited privilege escalation flaw in the LiteSpeed cPanel plugin that lets unauthenticated attackers gain root execution. The agency is also pressing private-sector organizations to install vendor updates immediately.
The vulnerability stems from an incorrect privilege assignment weakness that enables remote attackers with no privileges to execute arbitrary scripts with root privileges.
https://x.com/litespeedtech/status/2057479889930817601
CISA warned that this type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise.
Administrators should immediately audit logs with the provided grep command and update any LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin versions between v2.3 and v2.4.4 to block active exploitation attempts.
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