Security advisory

{
  "id": "91c94594f3a3392a28f1101e25b570a3d353cc5b81ed9e80d27b1f38235b7d1d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16915",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-16915",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in pfSense through 2.4.4-p3. widgets/widgets/picture.widget.php uses the widgetkey parameter directly without sanitization (e.g., a basename call) for a pathname to file_get_contents or file_put_contents.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-16915",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-16915",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-16915"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "531aaac17018e117d0d0179d3c8ecfd22b6a6a7c"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "531aaac17018e117d0d0179d3c8ecfd22b6a6a7c"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "2bf6d4322622765bd1ce6ca8915ff75890885566"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2c544ac61ce98f716d50b8e5961d7dfba66804b5"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netgate:pfsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.4.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netgate:pfsense:2.4.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.4-NA"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.4-NA"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netgate:pfsense:2.4.4:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.4-p1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.4-p1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netgate:pfsense:2.4.4:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.4-p2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.4-p2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netgate:pfsense:2.4.4:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.4-p3"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.4-p3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "2c544ac61ce98f716d50b8e5961d7dfba66804b5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.4.4-NA",
            "2.4.4-p1",
            "2.4.4-p2",
            "2.4.4-p3",
            "v2.4.4_3",
            "v2.4.4_2",
            "v2.4.4_1",
            "v2.4.4",
            "RELENG_2_2_BETA",
            "Root_RELENG_1_2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16915.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:37.857921920Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.seebug.org/vuldb/ssvid-98024",
        "https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9610",
        "https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/2c544ac61ce98f716d50b8e5961d7dfba66804b5"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-16915",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382686,
  "published_at": "2019-09-26T18:15:10.807+00:00"
}