# Accessing Patchman via cPanel

> Patchman scans your hosting account for vulnerabilities. Here is how to open its dashboard from cPanel to review detections and act on them.

Source: https://www.kualo.com/knowledgebase/security-patchman/accessing-patchman-via-cpanel
Updated: 2026-06-11

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Patchman scans your hosting account for known vulnerabilities and outdated applications, and can patch many of them automatically. You can open its dashboard directly from cPanel to review what it has found.

## Open Patchman

1. Log in to cPanel and find the **Security** section.
2. Click the **Patchman** icon. cPanel signs you straight in to your Patchman dashboard.

![The Patchman detections dashboard](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/38/02/3802f5e4032208705cd1f1d9619823fedca74bdc.png)

## The dashboard

The dashboard opens on **Detections** and shows:

- **Total issues** and **Open issues** counts, plus a chart of detections over time, so you can see your security at a glance. The goal is to keep open issues at zero.
- **Domain** and **Type** filters to narrow the list (for example, to malware or to vulnerabilities).
- A **detections table** listing each finding with its date, **Status**, a **Description** of the vulnerability, the affected file **Path**, and an **Actions** menu.

## Acting on a detection

Use a detection's **Actions** menu to deal with it - most commonly to **patch** the vulnerability, which fixes the affected file in place. If a patch ever causes a problem with your site, you can undo it - see [reverting Patchman patches](/knowledgebase/security-patchman/reverting-patchman-patches).

You can also use **Perform scan** at the top to run a manual scan, or **Applications** to review which of your installed applications are up to date.

:::tip
Patchman runs automatically in the background, so you usually do not need to do anything - but it is worth checking in occasionally to keep your open issues at zero.
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