Vulnerability · Published Jul 30, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-14162
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 0.6% (higher than 48% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://docs.pi-hole.net/core/pihole-command/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.html x_refsource_MISC