CVE-2018-25117: Vesta Control Panel (CP)

VestaCP Debian Installer Malicious Backdoor Supply Chain Compromise

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0044 · 38th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 15 Oct 2025, 01:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Vesta	Control Panel (CP)	affected a3f0fa1501d424477786e3e7150bb05c0b99518f to before ee03eff016e03cb76fac7ae3a0f9d1ef0f8ee35b git Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2018-25117

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-506

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.3	Critical	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0044, the 38th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 15 Oct 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.welivesecurity.com/2018/10/18/new-linux-chachaddos-malware-distributed-servers-vestacp-installed/ technical-description
github.com/outroll/vesta/commit/ee03eff016e03cb76fac7ae3a0f9d1ef0f8ee35b#diff-df8da0c91e9086454c60cd468849630dL1270 patch
github.com/outroll/vesta/commit/a3f0fa1501d424477786e3e7150bb05c0b99518f#diff-df8da0c91e9086454c60cd468849630dR1256 patch
forum.vestacp.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17641&p=73282 issue-tracking
forum.vestacp.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17641&start=180#p73907 vendor-advisorypatch
vestacp.com/ product
github.com/outroll/vesta product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vestacp-debian-installer-malicious-backdoor-supply-chain-compromise third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.