VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2020-14162
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.59%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-07-30
Last modified2026-06-17
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.