What is CVE-2020-14162?

CVE-2020-14162 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pi-Hole, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-07-30.

How severe is CVE-2020-14162?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

RCE in Pi-Hole

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.006 (44.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Pi-hole
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-14162?: CVE-2020-14162 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pi-Hole, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-07-30.
How severe is CVE-2020-14162?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.