Is CVE-2026-111229 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-111229?

CVE-2026-111229 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.2).

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CVE-2026-111229

Description

pfSense CE 2.7.0 through 2.9.0 contains a command injection vulnerability in services_captiveportal_hasync.php that allows users with only the Captive Portal HA privilege to execute commands as root. Attackers can set backwardsyncip to a malicious XMLRPC server returning connected_users with shell metacharacters in ip or mac fields, which captiveportal_load_pfctl passes unescaped to a pfctl shell command.