CVE-2020-11108

high

Description

The Gravity updater in Pi-hole through 4.4 allows an authenticated adversary to upload arbitrary files. This can be abused for Remote Code Execution by writing to a PHP file in the web directory. (Also, it can be used in conjunction with the sudo rule for the www-data user to escalate privileges to root.) The code error is in gravity_DownloadBlocklistFromUrl in gravity.sh.

References

https://github.com/Frichetten/CVE-2020-11108-PoC

https://frichetten.com/blog/cve-2020-11108-pihole-rce/

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157839/Pi-hole-4.4.0-Remote-Code-Execution.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157748/Pi-Hole-heisenbergCompensator-Blocklist-OS-Command-Execution.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157624/Pi-hole-4.4-Remote-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157623/Pi-hole-4.4-Remote-Code-Execution.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-05-11

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.78262