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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 30, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-14162

CVE-2020-14162

Description

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.

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Affected products

4
  • Pi Hole/Pi Hole2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:pi-hole:pi-hole:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:pi-hole:pi-hole:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <5.1
    • (no CPE)range: <=5.0
  • Pi-Hole/Pi-Holedescription
  • Pi Hole/pihole core scriptllm-create
    Range: <=5.0

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