CVE-2026-72840 PUBLISHED

OpenWrt LuCI luci-mod-system-mounts ACL Root RCE via Crontab Write

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 13.08.2026 Updated: 13.08.2026

OpenWrt LuCI contains an overly permissive ACL definition in luci-mod-system-mounts that grants write access to /etc/crontabs/root to users intended only for mount configuration. Authenticated users with only the mount-configuration ACL group can append arbitrary cron entries via ubus file.write, which the default busybox crond daemon executes as root within one minute.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor openwrt
Product luci
Versions Default: affected

Credits

  • lujiefsi reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Incorrect Privilege Assignment CWE