Is CVE-2026-111223 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-111223?

CVE-2026-111223 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.2).

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CVE-2026-111223

Description

Netgate pfSense CE 2.7.0 through 2.9.0 contains a configuration injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users with IPsec Mobile privileges to execute commands as root via the login_banner field. Attackers can submit a single-line banner containing '}' to escape the unquoted strongswan.conf attr value and define charon.start-scripts entries that charon executes as root on restart.