CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-111219

MediumCVSS 6.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.89%

58th percentile - higher than 58% of all known CVEs

Summary

Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 contains a newline injection vulnerability in services_pppoe_edit.php. Users with the PPPoE Server Edit privilege can inject mpd.secret entries via unvalidated username POST fields, causing mpd5 to run commands as root when a PPPoE client authenticates.

Risk Assessment

A user with the PPPoE Server Edit privilege can achieve root command execution on the firewall, leading to full compromise of the edge device.

Recommendation

Upgrade pfSense CE beyond 2.9.0 once available and restrict the PPPoE Server Edit privilege to trusted administrators only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 contains a newline injection vulnerability in services_pppoe_edit.php that allows privileged users to inject mpd.secret entries via unvalidated username POST fields. Attackers with the PPPoE Server Edit privilege can add a line whose secret begins with '!', making mpd5 run commands as root when a PPPoE client authenticates.

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