PT-2026-30655 · Pi-Hole · Pi-Hole

Smittix

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Published

2026-04-06

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Updated

2026-04-06

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CVE-2026-33727

CVSS v3.1

6.7

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application. Version 6.4 has a local privilege-escalation vulnerability allows code execution as root from the low-privilege pihole account. Important context: the pihole account uses nologin, so this is not a direct interactive-login issue. However, nologin does not prevent code from running as UID pihole if a Pi-hole component is compromised. In that realistic post-compromise scenario, attacker-controlled content in /etc/pihole/versions is sourced by root-run Pi-hole scripts, leading to root code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.4.1.

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-33727

Affected Products

Pi-Hole