High
Security advisory
VestaCP through 0.9.8-24 allows the admin user to escalate privileges to root because the Sudo configuration does not require a password to run /usr/local/vesta/bin scripts.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-30462
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
VestaCP through 0.9.8-24 allows the admin user to escalate privileges to root because the Sudo configuration does not require a password to run /usr/local/vesta/bin scripts.
osv:CVE-2021-30462
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:32.330273506Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"published_at": "2021-04-08T14:15:14.213+00:00"
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