diff --git a/charts/stable/pihole/SCALE/questions.yaml b/charts/stable/pihole/SCALE/questions.yaml
index e8c00916029..5be6d0885fb 100644
--- a/charts/stable/pihole/SCALE/questions.yaml
+++ b/charts/stable/pihole/SCALE/questions.yaml
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ questions:
           label: "Allow Privilege Escalation"
           schema:
             type: boolean
-            default: false
+            default: true
         - variable: runAsNonRoot
           label: "runAsNonRoot"
           schema:
diff --git a/charts/stable/pihole/values.yaml b/charts/stable/pihole/values.yaml
index 9ef5e5511ee..b62e4fe960b 100644
--- a/charts/stable/pihole/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/stable/pihole/values.yaml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ image:
 securityContext:
   readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
   runAsNonRoot: false
+  allowPrivilegeEscalation: true
 
 podSecurityContext:
   runAsUser: 0