CVE-2020-14162

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14162
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-14162.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-14162
Published
2020-07-30T14:15:12.153Z
Modified
2026-08-07T16:35:53.173458Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
e9b039139c468798fb6d9457e4c9012171faee33
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pi-hole:pi-hole:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.0
2.8
V2.*
V2.5.1
V2.9.1
V2.9.2
v2.*
v2.1
v2.10
v2.10.1
v2.10.2
v2.11
v2.11.1
v2.11.2
v2.12
v2.12.1
v2.13
v2.13.1
v2.13.2
v2.2
v2.3
v2.4
v2.5.2
v2.5.3
v2.6
v2.6.1
v2.6.1.1
v2.6.1.2
v2.6.2
v2.6.3
v2.7
v2.7.1
v2.8.1
v2.9
v2.9.3
v2.9.4
v2.9.4a
v2.9.5
v3.*
v3.0
v3.0.1
v3.1
v3.1.4
v3.2
v3.2.1
v3.3
v3.3.1
v4.*
v4.0
v4.1
v4.1.1
v4.2
v4.2.1
v4.2.2
v4.3
v4.3.1
v4.3.2
v4.3.3
v4.3.4
v4.3.5
v4.4
v5.*
v5.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-14162.json"