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CVE-2020-10797
An XSS vulnerability resides in the hostname field of the diag_ping.php page in pfsense before 2.4.5 version. After passing inputs to the…
Medium6.1EPSS 2.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
An XSS vulnerability resides in the hostname field of the diag_ping.php page in pfsense before 2.4.5 version. After passing inputs to the command and executing this command, the $result variable is not sanitized before it is printed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 40 days later
· 40 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10355 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/cc3990a334059018b004c91eeb66c147d8afe83d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-4-5-new-features-and-changes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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