CVE-2026-111223: high-severity vulnerability in Netgate pfSense CE
Netgate pfSense CE 2.7.0 through 2.9.0 Command Injection via IPsec Mobile Login Banner
Published
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41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.6epss 0.8%
Netgate pfSense CE 2.7.0 through 2.9.0 contains a configuration injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users with IPsec Mobile privileges to execute commands as root via the login_banner field. Attackers can submit a single-line banner containing '}' to escape the unquoted strongswan.conf attr value and define charon.start-scripts entries that charon executes as root on restart.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Netgate · pfSense CEpublic PoCs found — 1
cve_referencegithub.com/abraxas/pfsense-ipsec-login-bannerunverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
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References
https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/pfsense-ce-leftovershttps://abraxaslabs.tech/research/pfsense-ipsec-login-bannerhttps://github.com/abraxas/pfsense-ipsec-login-bannerhttps://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/9363ac5b8651a1c7a333180425ce7719070f95f9/src/etc/inc/ipsec.inc#L1361-L1388https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/9363ac5b8651a1c7a333180425ce7719070f95f9/src/etc/inc/ipsec.inc#L1842-L1845https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/9363ac5b8651a1c7a333180425ce7719070f95f9/src/usr/local/www/vpn_ipsec_mobile.php#L269-L273https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/27a52d0807https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netgate-pfsense-ce-2.7.0-through-2.9.0-command-injection-via-ipsec-mobile-login-banner