CVE-2026-111223

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.2

Exploit probability—

ProductPfsense

PublishedOct 15, 2026

First seenOct 15, 2026

Weakness typeCWE-74Injection

How to fix

Patches

github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/27a52d0807

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
pfsense pfsense	2.7.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.9.0	—

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