VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-53581

critical
Published 2026-09-08 · Modified 2026-09-08
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CVSS v3
9.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.0

Description

OPNsense is a FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. Prior to version 26.1.9 of opnsense/core and version 26.4_20 of BE/opnsense/core, a path traversal vulnerability in the NTP configuration module allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the system as the root user. By manipulating the GPS or PPS serial port parameter, an attacker with access to the NTP configuration can escape the intended directory and force the system to write user-controlled data to any file on the filesystem. Version 26.1.9 of opnsense/core and version 26.4_20 of BE/opnsense/core patch the issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
93%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-22 CWE-73

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.