Security Advisory: DirectAdmin Privilege Escalation

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

High 2026-08-06

DirectAdmin AlmaLinux 9 CentOS 7 Debian 12 Ubuntu 22.04

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

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.

References

Security Advisories

Security: Privilege Escalation via Phusion Passenger’s Watchdog API

2026-09-08

Security: CVE-2026-41940 – cPanel & WHM / WP2 Security Update 04/28/2026

2026-09-08

Security: CSF Security Release – September 3rd, 2026

2026-09-08

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