OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Prior to version 24.10.4, ubusd contains a heap buffer overflow in the event registration parsing code. This allows an attacker to modify the head and potentially execute arbitrary code in the context of the ubus daemon. The affected code is executed before running the ACL checks, all ubus clients are able to send such messages. In addition to the heap corruption, the crafted subscription also results in a bypass of the listen ACL. This is fixed in OpenWrt 24.10.4. There are no workarounds.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 6
- https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/4b907e69ea58fc0ba35fd1755dc4ba22262af3a4 Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/a7901969932a175cded3c93bdeb65f32ed3705e6 Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/security/advisories/GHSA-cp32-65v4-cp73 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/openwrt/ubus/commit/60e04048a0e2f3e33651c19e62861b41be4c290f Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/ubus/commit/aa4a7ee1d3417bc11207ad0a78d579ece7fe0c13 Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/ubus/commit/d31effb4277bd557f5ccf16d909422718c1e49d0 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · openwrtNVD modified 2026-10-19 16:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:o:openwrt:openwrt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 7
- https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/4b907e69ea58fc0ba35fd1755dc4ba22262af3a4 Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/a7901969932a175cded3c93bdeb65f32ed3705e6 Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/security/advisories/GHSA-cp32-65v4-cp73 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/openwrt/ubus/commit/60e04048a0e2f3e33651c19e62861b41be4c290f Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/ubus/commit/aa4a7ee1d3417bc11207ad0a78d579ece7fe0c13 Patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/ubus/commit/d31effb4277bd557f5ccf16d909422718c1e49d0 Patch
- https://openwrt.org/advisory/2025-10-22-1 Third Party Advisory