CVE-2026-33727 PUBLISHED

Pi-hole has a Local Privilege Escalation (post-compromise, pihole -> root).

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 23.03.2026 Published: 06.04.2026 Updated: 06.04.2026

Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application. Version 6.4 has a local privilege-escalation vulnerability allows code execution as root from the low-privilege pihole account. Important context: the pihole account uses nologin, so this is not a direct interactive-login issue. However, nologin does not prevent code from running as UID pihole if a Pi-hole component is compromised. In that realistic post-compromise scenario, attacker-controlled content in /etc/pihole/versions is sourced by root-run Pi-hole scripts, leading to root code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.4.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.4

Product Status

Vendor pi-hole
Product pi-hole
Versions
  • Version >= 6.4, < 6.4.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management CWE