CVE-2026-50130
⚠️ highSummary
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 Score
8.8
High
EPSS Score
-
Published Date
2026-07-14
First Seen: 2026-07-15
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence
This CVE is High Risk - more severe than 81.1% of all 335,187 vulnerabilities in our database.
#63,304
Top 25% most severe
Severity Percentile
Last Modified
2026-07-14
Source
NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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