CVE-2026-50130

8.8 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.8) in pi-hole pi-hole. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-282
Published: 2026-07-14
Modified: 2026-07-30
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pi-hole:pi-hole

References

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commit/18002bf7c6bf382fe5861d01321f427019e1be89
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v6.4.3
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advisories/GHSA-h8w9-qx2v-wrww
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advisories/GHSA-h8w9-qx2v-wrww

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