CVE-2020-14162

HIGH

Pi-Hole < 5.1 - OS Command Injection via setdns Command

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://docs.pi-hole.net/core/pihole-command/
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 43.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269 CWE-78
Status published
Products (1)
pi-hole/pi-hole < 5.1
Published Jul 30, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026