CVE-2020-11108
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.
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Key data
EPSS
- Score
- 0.78262 (78.3% probability)
- Percentile
- 99.6%
- Scores of
- Nov 10, 2026
- Model
- v2026.06.15
References
- frichetten.com/blog/cve-2020-11108-pihole-rce
- github.com/Frichetten/CVE-2020-11108-PoC
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/157623/Pi-hole-4.4-Remote-Cod…
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/157624/Pi-hole-4.4-Remote-Cod…
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/157748/Pi-Hole-heisenbergComp…
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/157839/Pi-hole-4.4.0-Remote-C…
Timeline
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- Record published
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