What is CVE-2019-12272?

CVE-2019-12272 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Openwrt Luci, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-05-23.

How severe is CVE-2019-12272?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-12272 known to be exploited?

9 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Openwrt Luci

CVE-2019-12272

In OpenWrt LuCI through 0.10, the endpoints admin/status/realtime/bandwidth_status and admin/status/realtime/wireless_status of the web application are affected by a command injection vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2019-05-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.074 (94.4th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.074 · newest: 0.074 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Openwrt Luci

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

github.com/openwrt/luci/commits/master (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/openwrt/luci/commit/9e4b8a91384562e3baee724a52b72e30b1aa006d (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12272?: CVE-2019-12272 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Openwrt Luci, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-05-23.
How severe is CVE-2019-12272?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-12272 known to be exploited?: 9 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.