CVE-2020-14162
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.
- Affected products
- Pi-Hole
- Pi-hole
- < 5.1
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.6% (45th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-78, CWE-269
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-30
CVE-2020-14162 at NVD
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