CVE-2021-29449

Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Pihole

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Apr 14, 2021
Updated: Apr 6, 2026
Reserved: Mar 30, 2021

Description

Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application. Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities were discovered in version 5.2.4 of Pi-hole core. See the referenced GitHub security advisory for details.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
pi-holepi-hole	<= 5.2.4Affected

References

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advisories/GHSA-3597-244c-wrpj
https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2021-02_CSNC-2021-008_Pi-hole_Privilege_Escalation.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163715/Pi-Hole-Remove-Commands-Linux-Privilege-Escalation.html

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