High 8.8Published Jul 14, 2026

CVE-2026-50130Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:00 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-282
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 30, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

pi-hole pi-hole pi-hole:pi-hole	from 6.0 before 6.4.3	NVD

References

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commit/18002bf7c6bf382fe5861d01321f427019e1be89patch
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v6.4.3product, release-notes
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advisories/GHSA-h8w9-qx2v-wrwwexploit, mitigation, vendor-advisory

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