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CVE-2026-33727
6.4 MEDIUM
- CVSS version: 3.1
- Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
- Attack complexity (AC): HIGH
- Privileges required (PR): HIGH
- User interaction (UI): NONE
- Scope (S): UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
- Integrity impact (I): HIGH
- Availability impact (A): HIGH
Pi-hole has a Local Privilege Escalation (post-compromise, pihole -> root).
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.
References
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https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advisories/GHSA-c935-8g63-qp74 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Affected products
pi-hole
- ==>= 6.4, < 6.4.1
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.gnomeExtensions.pi-hole
Status and basic controls of local Pi-Hole
Package maintainers
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@honnip Jung seungwoo <me@honnip.page>