Is CVE-2026-111224 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-111224?

CVE-2026-111224 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2026-111224

Description

pfSense CE through 2.9.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the OpenVPN openvpn.connect_async.sh script that allows authenticated VPN users to execute commands as root via crafted usernames. Attackers authenticated through RADIUS or LDAP can use usernames containing single quotes and shell metacharacters to break out of the eval'd pfctl anchor name on connect or disconnect.