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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-27253

A command injection vulnerability in the function restore_rrddata() of Netgate pfSense v2.7.0 allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands via manipulating the contents of an XML file supplied to the component config.xml.

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3 Nov 2026, 17:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2023-27253

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Mar 2023, 00:00 UTC

A command injection vulnerability in the function restore_rrddata() of Netgate pfSense v2.7.0 allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands via manipulating the contents of an XML file supplied to the component config.xml.

osv:CVE-2023-27253
Complete source record
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              "type": "GIT",
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                  "fixed": "ca80d18493f8f91b21933ebd6b714215ae1e5e94"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:30.925369114Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27253",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 497993,
  "published_at": "2023-03-17T00:00:00+00:00"
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