01 Record
CVE-2020-14971
Pi-hole through 5.0 allows code injection in piholedhcp (the Static DHCP Leases section) by modifying Teleporter backup files and then restoring them. This occurs in settings.php. To exploit this, an
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Pi-hole through 5.0 allows code injection in piholedhcp (the Static DHCP Leases section) by modifying Teleporter backup files and then restoring them. This occurs in settings.php. To exploit this, an
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.55% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 45.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-06-23 13:41Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 13:00Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-06-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862Missing AuthorizationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8613956745780a62b5e196b48fae3b9ad37f1088bc7ba4ce34d075a47debf15c
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- blog.telspace.co.zahttps://blog.telspace.co.za/2020/06/pi-hole-code-injection-cve-2020-14971.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/pull/1443
- github.comhttps://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/commit/c949516ee15fa6a9b0c8511cc4c4d6b0893f3e69
- github.comhttps://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/commit/8f6e1365b6dec0ae1aa0b0b15b102c9133f347e5