CVE-2026-111227
MEDIUMCVSS 5.5Description
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.
Timeline
Published:October 15th, 2026 7:17 PM
Last modified:October 15th, 2026 9:05 PM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/pfsense-ce-leftovers
- https://github.com/abraxas/pfsense-unbound-acl-crlf
- https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/9363ac5b8651a1c7a333180425ce7719070f95f9/src/etc/inc/unbound.inc#L1094-L1112
- https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/9363ac5b8651a1c7a333180425ce7719070f95f9/src/usr/local/www/services_unbound_acls.php#L121-L142
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netgate-pfsense-ce-through-2.9.0-crlf-injection-via-services-unbound-acls-php
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute