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CVE-2020-14162

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.59%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-07-30 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2020-14162
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.59%

Original NVD 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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