Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-111219 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-111219 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-111219?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.6, published 15 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Netgate Pfsense Ce through 2.9.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-111219?
- 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-2026-111219 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-111219?
- Check whether you run Netgate Pfsense Ce 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 a newline injection flaw in services_pppoe_edit.php that fails to validate the username POST field before writing it to the mpd.secret file. Attackers with PPPoE Server Edit privilege can inject lines with secrets beginning with '!' to trigger arbitrary command execution in mpd5 running as root during PPPoE client authentication. This requires authenticated access to the PPPoE configuration page.
Affected products
- Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-15: disclosed