CVE•Published 2026-05-08•Modified 2026-05-15•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-29203
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
A chmod call in the cPanel Nova plugin's Cpanel::Nova::Connector follows symlinks, allowing setting root permissions on arbitrary system files or directories. That can cause DoS or local privilege escalation when an authenticated cPanel user places a symlink at a user-controlled legacy Nova path under their home directory.
Timeline
Published 2026-05-08
Modified 2026-05-15
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-29203Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-29203Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-29203Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-29203GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-29203" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-29203 on GitHub.