Vulnerability · Published Jul 30, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-12620

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 74% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Pi-hole 4.4 allows a user able to write to /etc/pihole/dns-servers.conf to escalate privileges through command injection (shell metacharacters after an IP address).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole x_refsource_MISC
https://pi-hole.net/ x_refsource_MISC
https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.html x_refsource_MISC