CVE-2026-55897
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.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.5% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 39% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 8.8 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-09-21
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/commit/2df00deb122093cbf429266ffef7ad06aaecb48f
- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/commit/f85102548ee8325bfd581a0327b210b5f7670829
- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/8710
- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/security/advisories/GHSA-vj96-f37g-37f6
- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/security/advisories/GHSA-vj96-f37g-37f6