---
id: 8954
title: "New Age of Collisions: Reading Arbitrary Files Pre-Auth as root in cPanel (CVE-2026-29205)"
cve: CVE-2026-29205
source_domain: slcyber.io
source_url: "https://www.slcyber.io/research/new-age-of-collisions-reading-arbitrary-files-pre-auth-as-root-in-cpanel-cve-2026-29205"
published_at: "2026-05-18T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["vulnerability-research"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8954"
lang: en
---

# New Age of Collisions: Reading Arbitrary Files Pre-Auth as root in cPanel (CVE-2026-29205)

## Summary

Assetnote discovers a pre-auth arbitrary file read as root in cPanel via a hash collision authentication bypass — CVE-2026-29205.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** slcyber.io
- **CVE:** CVE-2026-29205
- **Published:** 2026-05-18T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.slcyber.io/research/new-age-of-collisions-reading-arbitrary-files-pre-auth-as-root-in-cpanel-cve-2026-29205
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8954