Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11108
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-11108
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.831039297Z",
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"references": [
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"published_at": "2020-05-11T15:15:11.353+00:00"
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