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CVE•Published 2026-07-24•Modified 2026-07-30•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-66141

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
7.4
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
1
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 99% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-829Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Description

Exim before 4.99.5 allows .forward privilege escalation because force_command for a pipe transport is mishandled.

Timeline
Published 2026-07-24
Modified 2026-07-30

External references

NVDMITREExploit-DBVulnCheck

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).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-66141
Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-66141
Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-66141
Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-66141
Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-66141
GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-66141" exploit -site:nvd.nist.gov
Write-ups and news, NVD excluded.

Known PoCs on GitHub (1)

CVE-2026-661411 repo
w4zu/Debian_securityPython
DSA and DLA for Debian last 14 days
★ 2·updated today
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