CVE•Published 2025-05-13•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2024-46506
Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)
CVSS v3.1
10.0
CRITICAL
EPSS percentile
99
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 1% of all CVEs
Description
NetAlertX 23.01.14 through 24.x before 24.10.12 allows unauthenticated command injection via settings update because function=savesettings lacks an authentication requirement, as exploited in the wild in May 2025. This is related to settings.php and util.php.
Timeline
Published 2025-05-13
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2024-46506Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Netalertx Netalertx" version:"23.01.14"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Netalertx"HTTP body or banner mentions "Netalertx" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2024-46506Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2024-46506Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2024-46506Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2024-46506GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2024-46506" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.