CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-14162
High (7.8) in pi-hole pi-hole. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-78, CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pi-hole:pi-hole