CVE-2026-35519: FTLDNS (pihole-FTL) provides an interactive API and also generates statistics for Pi-hole's Web interface. From 6.0 to before 6.6, the Pi-hole FTL engine…

PriorityP262high8.8CVSS 3.1

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EPSS

0.54%

41.2th percentile

FTLDNS (pihole-FTL) provides an interactive API and also generates statistics for Pi-hole's Web interface. From 6.0 to before 6.6, the Pi-hole FTL engine contains a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the DNS host record configuration parameter (dns.hostRecord). This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to inject arbitrary dnsmasq configuration directives through newline characters, ultimately achieving command execution on the underlying system. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.6.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
pi-hole	ftl	—	—
pi-hole	ftldns	6.0 – 6.5	—

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