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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-50130 EUVD-2026-44529

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

Published Jul 14, 2026 · Updated Jul 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pi-hole pi-hole >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.3 —

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