vulnerability
pfSense: pfSense-SA-19_07.webgui: Privilege Escalation in the WebGUI
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 20, 2019 | May 21, 2019 | Feb 18, 2025 |
Description
The privileges for access to the dashboard (page-dashboard-all) and for direct
access to dashboard widgets (page-dashboard-widgets) contained a match clause
for widget files with a leading wildcard. This allowed the URL to be manipulated
in a way which could have been used to gain elevated privileges.
Authenticated users with these privileges could access pages for which they had
not been granted access by appending a string to the URL ending in
".widget.php", for example: https://x.x.x.x/diag_backup.php?a.widget.php
Authenticated users could have used this behavior to gain elevated privileges
and perform actions allowed by any page in the WebGUI.
Solution
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