CVE-2026-119336

Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software. From 6.4.2 until 6.5, the root-run advanced/Scripts/updatecheck.sh cron job applies truncate -s 0 and chmod 644 to /etc/pihole/versions while following symbolic links in a directory owned by the pihole user. An attacker executing as pihole can replace that path with a symlink so the scheduled root operations truncate or create an arbitrary root-owned file, or race the operations so chmod makes a sensitive target world-readable without truncating it. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.

• CWE-59
• CWE-61

• https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commit/85de82dd2b63bf71ecb936177dfb82421d9d2f25
• https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commit/c1062f43b0de1876321bafac58fba862406366cb
• https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/commit/e05dc3f139206fd8d0e4a052dceefb9056533517
• https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/6719
• https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v6.5
• https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/security/advisories/GHSA-xch2-4qxw-g5vj

Published

Oct 30, 2026

Last Modified

Oct 30, 2026

Status

Received

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