An issue was discovered in Pi-Hole through 5.0.

published 2020-07-30 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-6319

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

pi-hole pi-hole 5.1

Exploit prediction

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

0xpanic.github.io https://0xpanic.github.io/2020/07/21/Pihole.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

0xpanic.github.io /2020/07/21/Pihole.html
exploit, third-party-advisory
docs.pi-hole.net /core/pihole-command/
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-14162
NVD CVE-2020-14162

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Summary