CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-111218

HighCVSS 7.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
8.45%

95th percentile - higher than 95% of all known CVEs

Summary

Netgate pfSense CE 2.7.0 through 2.9.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Traffic Shaper Limiters privileges to execute root commands by tampering with the limiter number field. Attackers can submit a malicious hidden 'number' value when editing a limiter, then delete it so delete_queue() passes the unquoted value to dnctl via /bin/sh as root.

Risk Assessment

A user with Traffic Shaper Limiters privilege can execute arbitrary commands as root, taking over the device.

Recommendation

Update pfSense CE to the patched version and restrict the Traffic Shaper Limiters privilege to trusted administrators.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Netgate pfSense CE 2.7.0 through 2.9.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users with Traffic Shaper Limiters privileges to execute root commands by tampering with the limiter number field. Attackers can submit a malicious hidden 'number' value when editing a limiter, then delete it so delete_queue() passes the unquoted value to dnctl via /bin/sh as root.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS