CVE-2011-4197

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.019 · 80 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.92% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

etc/inc/certs.inc in the PKI implementation in pfSense before 2.0.1 creates each X.509 certificate with a true value for the CA basic constraint, which allows remote attackers to create sub-certificates for arbitrary subjects by leveraging the private key.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.4–7.5

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v2.06.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
pfsense pfsense≤ 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pfsense:pfsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pfsense pfsense= 1.0.xnvdUScpe:2.3:a:pfsense:pfsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pfsense pfsense= 1.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pfsense:pfsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pfsense pfsense= 1.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pfsense:pfsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pfsense pfsense= 1.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pfsense:pfsense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-01-03modified 2026-06-16

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references (16)

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