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CVE-2023-27253

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 89.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-03-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-91

Description

A command injection vulnerability in the function restore_rrddata() of Netgate pfSense v2.7.0 allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands via manipulating the contents of an XML file supplied to the component config.xml.

Affected products

• Netgate pfSense: 2.7.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173487/pfSense-Restore-RRD-Data-Command-Injection.html
• https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/ca80d18493f8f91b21933ebd6b714215ae1e5e94
• https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13935
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173487/pfSense-Restore-RRD-Data-Command-Injection.html
• https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/ca80d18493f8f91b21933ebd6b714215ae1e5e94
• https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13935

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