CVE-2022-26019: Netgate Pfsense

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper access control vulnerability in pfSense CE and pfSense Plus (pfSense CE software versions prior to 2.6.0 and pfSense Plus software versions prior to 22.01) allows a remote attacker with the privilege to change NTP GPS settings to rewrite existing files on the file system, which may result in arbitrary command execution.

Affected products

• Netgate Pfsense: before 2.6.0 (fixed in 2.6.0)
• Netgate Pfsense Plus: before 22.01 (fixed in 22.01)

Published 2022-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.