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Pi-hole Web Interface < 4.3 RCE Vulnerability

🗓️ 25 May 2019 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AGType 
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Pi-hole Web Interface < 4.3 RCE Vulnerabilit

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:pi-hole:web_interface";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.108588");
  script_version("2025-11-06T05:40:15+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-11-06 05:40:15 +0000 (Thu, 06 Nov 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-05-25 14:17:45 +0000 (Sat, 25 May 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Pi-hole Web Interface < 4.3 RCE Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_pi-hole_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("pi-hole/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The Pi-hole Web Interface (previously AdminLTE) is prone to a
  remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the web interface.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A remote code execution could have been triggered by activating
  some list (adding or removing white/blacklist entries) via api.php by an authenticated user.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Pi-hole Web Interface (previously AdminLTE) prior to version
  4.3.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.3 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://pi-hole.net/2019/05/18/pi-hole-4-3-now-available/");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/releases/tag/v4.3");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/pull/921");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, nofork: TRUE))
  exit(0);

if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "4.3")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.3");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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