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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-35491 EUVD-2026-19676

Pi-hole FTL: CLI API sessions can import Teleporter archives and modify configuration

Published Apr 7, 2026 · Updated Apr 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

FTLDNS (pihole-FTL) provides an interactive API and also generates statistics for Pi-hole's Web interface. From 6.0 to before 6.6, Pi-hole FTL supports a CLI password feature (webserver.api.cli_pw) that creates “CLI” API sessions intended to be read-only for configuration changes. While /api/config correctly blocks CLI sessions from mutating configuration, /api/teleporter allowed Teleporter imports for CLI sessions, enabling a CLI-scoped session to overwrite configuration via a Teleporter archive (authorization bypass). This vulnerability is fixed in 6.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pi-hole FTL >= 6.0, < 6.6 —

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