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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2024-54780 in the critical feed json

Netgate pfSense CE (prior to 2.8.0 beta release) and corresponding Plus builds are vulnerable to command injection in the OpenVPN widget du…

published 2025-05-14 17 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-15584

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.7%
EPSS 12.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Netgate pfSense CE (prior to 2.8.0 beta release) and corresponding Plus builds are vulnerable to command injection in the OpenVPN widget due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input to the OpenVPN management interface. An authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by injecting arbitrary OpenVPN management commands via the remipp parameter.

Patch / fix

  • netgate pfsense_ce 2.8.0
  • netgate pfsense_plus 25.03

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
17 mo ago

Exploit prediction

12.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • blog.brillantit.com https://blog.brillantit.com/exploiting-pfsense-xss-command-injection-cloud-hijack/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.