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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Pi-hole: Local privilege escalation from `pihole` user to root via `/etc/pihole/logrotate` | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-282 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-14T21:35:00.813Z
Reserved: 2026-06-03T18:49:32.275Z
Link: CVE-2026-50130
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