CVE-2026-50130 (GCVE-0-2026-50130)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-14 21:35 – Updated: 2026-07-15 12:44
VLAI
Title
Pi-hole: Local privilege escalation from `pihole` user to root via `/etc/pihole/logrotate`
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-282 - Improper Ownership Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pi-hole pi-hole Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.3
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