Description

Netgate pfSense CE (prior to 2.8.0 beta release) and corresponding Plus builds are vulnerable to command injection in the OpenVPN widget due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input to the OpenVPN management interface. An authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by injecting arbitrary OpenVPN management commands via the remipp parameter.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-54780

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a

Product: n/a

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.33% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 55.1% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-12 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-54780
http://netgate.com
https://blog.brillantit.com/exploiting-pfsense-xss-command-injection-cloud-hijack/

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