CVE-2026-50130
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| pi-hole | pi-hole | >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.3 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-282: CWE-282: Improper Ownership Management
References
- https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advisories/GHSA-h8w9-qx2v-wrww
- https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commit/18002bf7c6bf382fe5861d01321f427019e1be89
- https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v6.4.3
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