MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-111222 (CVSS 7.5)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 15, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 1.0%

Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 contains a php.ini injection vulnerability that allows authenticated users with General Setup privileges to inject directives by submitting an unvalidated timezone value. Attackers can embed a quote and newline to add auto_prepend_file pointing at /var/db/zoneinfo, executing PHP as root after php.ini is regenerated at boot or php-fpm restart.

Technical details

CVSS

7.5

AV:NetworkAC:HighPR:HighUI:None

Evidence and sources

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