Vulnerability · Published Jun 28, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2025-53392

Medium 5.0

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in pfSense from Netgate. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.0Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 20.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

In Netgate pfSense CE 2.8.0, the "WebCfg - Diagnostics: Command" privilege allows reading arbitrary files via diag_command.php dlPath directory traversal. NOTE: the Supplier's perspective is that this is intended behavior for this privilege level, and that system administrators are informed through both the product documentation and UI.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Netgate pfSense 2.8.0

Weakness: CWE-36 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

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