UNKNOWNCVE-2026-33727
Pi-hole has a Local Privilege Escalation (post-compromise, pihole -> root).
Platform
linux
Component
pi-hole
Fixed in
6.4.1
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.
How to fix
Actualice Pi-hole a la versión 6.4.1 o posterior para mitigar la vulnerabilidad de escalada de privilegios. La actualización corrige la forma en que Pi-hole maneja el contenido en /etc/pihole/versions, evitando la ejecución de código malicioso como root.
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