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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