Monday, 24 December 2018

Popular Open Source Firewall / Router OS Netgate pfSense Can Be Hacked Remotely



Source:- Cisco Talos Intelligence
pfSense is an open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD developed by Netgate. A researcher named Brandon Stultz member of Cisco’s Talos Intelligence group discovered remote command injection vulnerability in pfSense software.
pfSense is popular because it can be installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine ( VM Ware, etc., ) or it can be also deployed on cloud such as AWS or Azure to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage.

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