CVE-2020-12620

7.8 highEPSS 1.5%

High (7.8) in pi-hole pi-hole. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2020-07-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pi-hole:pi-hole

References

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

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