CVE-2024-28247 Pihole Authenticated Arbitrary File Read with root privileges
Authenticated attackers can read arbitrary server files as root by exploiting local file update logic in Pi-hole.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-28247?
CVE-2024-28247 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in pi-hole, published on 27 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-28247?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pi-Hole Pi-Hole.
How do I fix CVE-2024-28247?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-28247 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2024-28247 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-28247 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in pi-hole
- CVE-2020-8816 Pi-Hole AdminLTE Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2025-34087 Pi-Hole AdminLTE Whitelist (now 'Web Allowlist') Remote Command Execution
- CVE-2026-50130 Pi-hole: Local privilege escalation from `pihole` user to root via `/etc/pihole/logrotate`
- CVE-2020-11108 File upload in n/a
- CVE-2019-13051 Pi-Hole 4.3 allows Command Injection.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-95g6-7q26-mp9x.