CVE-2026-111227: medium-severity vulnerability in Netgate pfSense CE
Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 CRLF Injection via services_unbound_acls.php
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33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 5.1epss 1.8%
Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 contains a CRLF injection vulnerability in services_unbound_acls.php that allows authenticated users with the DNS Resolver: Access Lists privilege to inject Unbound configuration directives. Attackers can embed CR/LF characters in the aclname or aclaction fields written to access_lists.conf to add local-data, local-zone, or forward-zone directives and control DNS answers served to LAN clients.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L
Affected products
Netgate · pfSense CEpublic PoCs found — 1
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References
https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/pfsense-ce-leftovershttps://github.com/abraxas/pfsense-unbound-acl-crlfhttps://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/9363ac5b8651a1c7a333180425ce7719070f95f9/src/etc/inc/unbound.inc#L1094-L1112https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/9363ac5b8651a1c7a333180425ce7719070f95f9/src/usr/local/www/services_unbound_acls.php#L121-L142https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netgate-pfsense-ce-through-2.9.0-crlf-injection-via-services-unbound-acls-php