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luci-app-travelmate - Arbitrary Command Execution via UCI Script Parameter

Published Jul 2, 2026

Description

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.

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner VulnCheck
Published Jul 2, 2026
Updated Aug 28, 2026
Reserved Jul 1, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jul 2, 2026
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Aug 28, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a