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.
Published: 2020-07-30
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-6319 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:39:35.896Z

Reserved: 2020-06-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-14162

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-30T14:15:12.153

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:02:46.613

Link: CVE-2020-14162

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