cve-2020-14162
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-30 13:05
Modified
2024-08-04 12:39
Severity ?
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.pi-hole.net/core/pihole-command/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.pi-hole.net/core/pihole-command/Vendor Advisory
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