Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-111216 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-111216 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-111216?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 15 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Netgate Pfsense Ce through 2.9.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-111216?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-111216 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-111216?
- Check whether you run Netgate Pfsense Ce or Pfsense at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an OS command injection in the gateway configuration module where user-supplied input in the IPv6 link-local zone index field is passed unvalidated to the dpinger shell command via the start_dpinger() function. An authenticated user with gateway edit privileges can inject shell metacharacters to execute arbitrary commands as root. The vulnerable component handles monitoring IP configuration where the zone field is concatenated directly into a shell command without proper escaping.
Affected products
- Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-15: disclosed