Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-111218 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-111218 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-111218?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 15 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Netgate Pfsense Ce 2.7.0 through 2.9.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-111218?
- 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-2026-111218 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-111218?
- 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
A command injection vulnerability exists in the Traffic Shaper Limiters functionality where the limiter number field is passed unquoted to the dnctl command via shell execution as root. An authenticated user with Traffic Shaper Limiters privileges can inject malicious shell metacharacters into the 'number' parameter when editing a limiter, then delete it to trigger the vulnerable delete_queue() code path that executes the attacker-controlled payload with root privileges.
Affected products
- Netgate pfSense CE 2.7.0 through 2.9.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-15: disclosed