CVE-2026-111226highCWE-78

CVE-2026-111226: high-severity vulnerability in Netgate pfSense CE

Netgate pfSense CE 2.4.5 through 2.9.0 OS Command Injection via system_advanced_admin.php

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41Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 8.6epss 6.5%
pfSense CE 2.4.5 through 2.9.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows authenticated WebGUI users with Advanced Admin Access privilege to execute commands as root via Login Protection settings. Attackers can submit sshguard threshold, block time, or detection time values containing newlines or $(...) that are written unvalidated to sshguard.conf and sourced 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 CE
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