CVE-2020-14971

HIGH

Pi-hole < 5.0 - Code Injection via Teleporter Backup File Restoration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Pi-hole through 5.0 allows code injection in piholedhcp (the Static DHCP Leases section) by modifying Teleporter backup files and then restoring them. This occurs in settings.php. To exploit this, an attacker would request a backup of limited files via teleporter.php. These are placed into a .tar.gz archive. The attacker then modifies the host parameter in dnsmasq.d files, and then compresses and uploads these files again.

References (4)

Core 4

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0055
EPSS Percentile 41.9%
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-862
Status published
Products (1)
pi-hole/pi-hole < 5.0
Published Jun 23, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026