CVE-2021-29449 (GCVE-0-2021-29449)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-04-14 22:05
Modified
2024-08-03 22:02
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-269 - {"":"Improper Privilege Management"}
Summary
Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application. Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities were discovered in version 5.2.4 of Pi-hole core. See the referenced GitHub security advisory for details.
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pi-hole pi-hole Version: <= 5.2.4
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