CVE-2026-50130 PUBLISHED

Pi-hole: Local privilege escalation from `pihole` user to root via `/etc/pihole/logrotate`

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 03.06.2026 Published: 14.07.2026 Updated: 15.07.2026

Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software. From 6.0 to 6.4.2, a user with code execution as the unprivileged pihole user can escalate to root by replacing /etc/pihole/logrotate. The replacement is laundered to root:root ownership by pihole-FTL-prestart.sh and then parsed as root by the daily pihole flush cron, executing firstaction shell as uid 0. This issue is fixed in version 6.4.3.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor pi-hole
Product pi-hole
Versions
  • Version >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-282: Improper Ownership Management CWE