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CVE-2024-54780

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

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.

Affected products

• Netgate Pfsense Ce: before 2.8.0 — fixed in 2.8.0
• Netgate Pfsense Plus: before 25.03 — fixed in 25.03

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Netgate Pfsense Ce 2.8.0; Netgate Pfsense Plus 25.03. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://blog.brillantit.com/exploiting-pfsense-xss-command-injection-cloud-hijack/
• https://www.netgate.com/blog/important-security-updates-for-pfsense-plus-24.11-and-ce-2.7.2

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