CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2024-34361 — Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software
Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software. A vulnerability in versions prior to 5.18.3 allows an authenticated user to make internal requests to the server via the `gravity_DownloadBlocklistFromUrl()` function. Depending on some circumstances, the vulnerability could lead to remote command execution. Version 5.18.3 contains a patch for this issue.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 8.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2024-07-05
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-918
Affected products
- pi-hole / pi-hole
Matched remediation archetype
Server-side request forgery and unintended proxying
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Check exposure
- Inventory server-side URL fetchers, webhooks, importers, previews, redirects, proxies, and protocol handlers reachable from untrusted input.
- Map egress paths to internal services, metadata endpoints, loopback, private address space, and privileged control planes.
- Review DNS resolution, redirect, proxy, credential-forwarding, and URL parsing behavior without requesting sensitive targets.
Remediate safely
- Replace arbitrary destinations with named integrations or a strict allowlist of schemes, hosts, ports, and paths.
- Resolve and validate every destination and redirect hop, then enforce egress policy independently of application checks.
- Remove ambient credentials and sensitive headers from fetchers; apply response size, time, and content limits.
Authoritative sources
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