CVE•Published 2026-07-14•Modified 2026-07-30•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-50130Pi-hole · Pi-hole
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
5
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 95% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-07-14
Modified 2026-07-30
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-50130Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Pi-hole Pi-hole"All exposed Pi-hole Pi-hole instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Pi-hole"HTTP body or banner mentions "Pi-hole" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-50130Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-50130Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-50130Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-50130GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-50130" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-50130 on GitHub.