CVE-2020-14162

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Pi-Hole through 5.0. The local www-data user has sudo privileges to execute the pihole core script as root without a password, which could allow an attacker to obtain root access via shell metacharacters to this script's setdns command.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-78 CWE-269

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 30, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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