CVE-2026-50130 (GCVE-0-2026-50130)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-14 21:35 – Updated: 2026-07-16 03:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-15 00:00 UTC
CWE
- CWE-282 - Improper Ownership Management
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commit/18002bf… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v6.4.3 | x_refsource_MISC |
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