High severity · published Sep 21, 2026
CVE-2026-55897
luci-app-advanced-reboot read ACL exposes /bin/sh through file.exec, allowing delegated users to run commands as root
8.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
luci-app-advanced-reboot is a LuCI (web interface) application for OpenWrt that provides a way to reboot your router into an alternative firmware partition or perform reboot operations directly from the web UI. Prior to 1.1.2-6, the luci-app-advanced-reboot read ACL in applications/luci-app-advanced-reboot/root/usr/share/rpcd/acl.d/luci-app-advanced-reboot.json grants rpcd file.exec permission for the general shell interpreter /bin/sh. An authenticated delegated session with that read ACL can supply caller-controlled params; rpcd authorizes the executable path and passes those arguments to the shell, allowing arbitrary commands to execute as root. Builds without the /bin/sh exec grant, including the checked openwrt-24.10 and openwrt-23.05 branches, are not affected by this specific chain. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.1.2-6.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LU
luci · openwrt
< 1.1.2-6 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55897
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55897
github.com
https://github.com/openwrt/luci/commit/2df00deb122093cbf429266ffef7ad06aaecb48f
github.com
https://github.com/openwrt/luci/commit/f85102548ee8325bfd581a0327b210b5f7670829
github.com
https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/8710
github.com
https://github.com/openwrt/luci/security/advisories/GHSA-vj96-f37g-37f6
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