CVE-2019-13051

HIGH

Pi-hole 4.3 - OS Command Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2019-13051. PoCs published by pr0tean.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository provides a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2019-13051, a command injection vulnerability in Pi-Hole's AdminLTE component. It explains how an attacker can bypass email validation to inject commands into the 'Administrator E-mail Address' field, which are then executed with root privileges by a cron job.

Description

Pi-Hole 4.3 allows Command Injection.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP 21 stars
by pr0tean · poc
https://github.com/pr0tean/CVE-2019-13051

This repository provides a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2019-13051, a command injection vulnerability in Pi-Hole's AdminLTE component. It explains how an attacker can bypass email validation to inject commands into the 'Administrator E-mail Address' field, which are then executed with root privileges by a cron job.

Classification
Writeup 95%
Attack Type
Rce
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Pi-Hole < 4.3.2
Auth required
Prerequisites: Network connectivity to the Pi-Hole AdminLTE web interface · Valid credentials for the AdminLTE web application
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://pi-hole.net/blog/
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://pi-hole.net/2019/09/21/pi-hole-4-3-2-release-notes/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/pull/974

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.3466
EPSS Percentile 97.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-78
Status published
Products (1)
pi-hole/pi-hole 4.3
Published Oct 09, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026