Description
Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 contains a CRLF injection vulnerability in services_unbound_acls.php that allows authenticated users with the DNS Resolver: Access Lists privilege to inject Unbound configuration directives. Attackers can embed CR/LF characters in the aclname or aclaction fields written to access_lists.conf to add local-data, local-zone, or forward-zone directives and control DNS answers served to LAN clients.
Published: 2026-10-15
Score: 5.1 Medium
EPSS: 1.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pfsense
Pfsense pfsense
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:pfsense:pfsense:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Pfsense
Pfsense pfsense

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 contains a CRLF injection vulnerability in services_unbound_acls.php that allows authenticated users with the DNS Resolver: Access Lists privilege to inject Unbound configuration directives. Attackers can embed CR/LF characters in the aclname or aclaction fields written to access_lists.conf to add local-data, local-zone, or forward-zone directives and control DNS answers served to LAN clients.
Title Netgate pfSense CE through 2.9.0 CRLF Injection via services_unbound_acls.php
First Time appeared Netgate
Netgate pfsense
Weaknesses CWE-93
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:netgate:pfsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Netgate
Netgate pfsense
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L'}

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Netgate Pfsense
Pfsense Pfsense
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-21T01:10:35.133Z

Reserved: 2026-10-15T18:21:22.605Z

Link: CVE-2026-111227

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-10-15T19:17:35.527

Modified: 2026-10-21T01:17:20.423

Link: CVE-2026-111227

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-16T17:30:13Z

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