CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2020-14162

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.

7.2 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Scope

7.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://docs.pi-hole.net/core/pihole-command/ Vendor Advisory
https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.html Exploit Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:pi-hole:pi-hole:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2020-07-30 02:15

Updated : 2021-07-21 11:39

NVD link : CVE-2020-14162

Mitre link : CVE-2020-14162

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-269

CWE-78