CVE-2026-30873 PUBLISHED

OpenWrt Project jsonpath: Memory leak when processing strings, labels, and regexp tokens

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 06.03.2026 Published: 19.03.2026 Updated: 19.03.2026

OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. In versions prior to both 24.10.6 and 25.12.1, the jp_get_token function, which performs lexical analysis by breaking input expressions into tokens, contains a memory leak vulnerability when extracting string literals, field labels, and regular expressions using dynamic memory allocation. These extracted results are stored in a jp_opcode struct, which is later copied to a newly allocated jp_opcode object via jp_alloc_op. During this transfer, if a string was previously extracted and stored in the initial jp_opcode, it is copied to the new allocation but the original memory is never freed, resulting in a memory leak. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.10.6 and 25.12.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.4

Product Status

Vendor openwrt
Product openwrt
Versions
  • Version >= 25.12.0-rc1, < 25.12.1 is affected
  • Version < 24.10.6 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime CWE