CVE-2024-28247

Pihole Authenticated Arbitrary File Read with root privileges

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 27, 2024 at 06:24 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:21 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPi Hole

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
PoC

Description

The Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software. A vulnerability has been discovered in Pihole that allows an authenticated user on the platform to read internal server files arbitrarily, and because the application runs from behind, reading files is done as a privileged user.If the URL that is in the list of "Adslists" begins with "file*" it is understood that it is updating from a local file, on the other hand if it does not begin with "file*" depending on the state of the response it does one thing or another. The problem resides in the update through local files. When updating from a file which contains non-domain lines, 5 of the non-domain lines are printed on the screen, so if you provide it with any file on the server which contains non-domain lines it will print them on the screen. This vulnerability is fixed by 5.18.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 5.18> 5.18
Affected range stops below 5.18, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-200CWE-269NVD-CWE-noinfo

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