RCE in Openwrt Luci-App-Travelmate
CVE-2026-58652
luci-app-travelmate (and the travelmate package) contain a privilege-escalation flaw: a LuCI/rpcd session holding the luci-app-travelmate write ACL is granted config-wide UCI write access to the travelmate configuration. While the LuCI UI restricts the auto-login script picker to /etc/travelmate/*.login, this is only a frontend restriction. The backend travelmate service (running as root) reads the raw UCI 'script' and 'script_args' values and executes the configured path when the captive-portal auto-login branch (f_check() in travelmate-functions.sh) is reached. An attacker with delegated write permissions can set script to /bin/sh and script_args to attacker-controlled arguments, resulting in arbitrary command execution as root. Confirmed in luci-app-travelmate/travelmate 2.4.5-r3; the sink is still present in travelmate 2.4.6-1 and no patched version is known.
Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)
EPSS: 0.005 (38.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Openwrt Luci-app-travelmate — versions 2.4.5-r3
- Openwrt Travelmate — versions 2.4.5-r3, 2.4.6-1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- disclosure@vulncheck.com (vendor-advisory)
- disclosure@vulncheck.com (patch)
- disclosure@vulncheck.com (patch)
- disclosure@vulncheck.com (patch)
- disclosure@vulncheck.com (patch)
- disclosure@vulncheck.com (patch)
- disclosure@vulncheck.com (third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-58652?
- CVE-2026-58652 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openwrt Luci-App-Travelmate, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-07-02.
- How severe is CVE-2026-58652?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.