CVE-2024-28247 Details
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.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-28247
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
5.58 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (90th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2024-28247
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
7.6 High
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CVE-2024-28247 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
US 126 30.22%
DE 85 20.38%
NL 27 6.47%
FR 20 4.80%
GB 18 4.32%
AU 11 2.64%
ES 10 2.40%
CA 9 2.16%
PL 8 1.92%
IT 8 1.92%

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CVE-2024-28247 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 157 55.67%
Telecommunications 120 42.55%
Education 3 1.06%
Media/Entertainment 1 0.35%
Utilities 1 0.35%

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