High 2026-08-06

Security Advisory: DirectAdmin Privilege Escalation

DirectAdmin AlmaLinux 9 CentOS 7 Debian 12 Ubuntu 22.04

A privilege escalation flaw in DirectAdmin allowed a user to escalate privileges and gain access to other accounts on the same server.

Affected Versions

1.660 and earlier

Patched Version

1.661

Default Update CMD

yum update -y

Fix Commands

CentOS 7 / AlmaLinux 9

da-setup da
/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/update.sh

Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian 12

da-setup da
/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/update.sh

A privilege escalation flaw in DirectAdmin allowed a user to escalate privileges and gain access to other accounts on the same server.

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