CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-12620
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
Pi-hole 4.4 allows a user able to write to /etc/pihole/dns-servers.conf to escalate privileges through command injection (shell metacharacters after an IP address).
Affected configurations
• pi-hole pi-hole (< 5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole Third Party Advisory
- https://pi-hole.net/ Vendor Advisory
- https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole Third Party Advisory
- https://pi-hole.net/ Vendor Advisory