FreeNAS Remote Shell Command Execution Vulnerability

FreeNAS is prone to a shell-command-execution vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit the remote shell-command-execution issue to execute arbitrary shell commands in the context of the webserver process. FreeNAS versions prior to 0.7.2 rev.5543 are vulnerable.

No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.