CVE-2020-14162 An issue was discovered in Pi-Hole through 5.0.
High 7.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-14162 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2020-14162 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Jul 2020.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14162 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14162/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14162/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-14162?
CVE-2020-14162 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Jul 2020.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14162?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pi-Hole Pi-Hole.
How do I fix CVE-2020-14162?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-14162 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-14162 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14162 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2020-8816 Pi-Hole AdminLTE Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2025-34087 Pi-Hole AdminLTE Whitelist (now 'Web Allowlist') Remote Command Execution
- CVE-2026-50130 Pi-hole: Local privilege escalation from `pihole` user to root via `/etc/pihole/logrotate`
- CVE-2020-11108 File upload in n/a
- CVE-2019-13051 Pi-Hole 4.3 allows Command Injection.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x839-xh4j-fgrf.