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; travelmate 2.4.6-1 is also affected. Fixed in travelmate 2.4.6-2, which enforces the /etc/travelmate/*.login allowlist in the backend.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://github.com/openwrt/packages/commit/0627b412ee3a760cc4bca9fc8a5b73de8f33ac10 patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/packages/commit/d6e457a1a70a9010195edeafdc0b8eb6e3b0f7f1 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 7.7 · openwrtNVD modified 2026-10-29 20:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 5
- https://github.com/openwrt/luci/security/advisories/GHSA-p35r-3323-6g7g vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/openwrt/packages/commit/71d92bcc9edbc8f95858ce82a8ff5d52500005a2
- https://github.com/openwrt/packages/commit/0627b412ee3a760cc4bca9fc8a5b73de8f33ac10 patch
- https://github.com/openwrt/packages/commit/d6e457a1a70a9010195edeafdc0b8eb6e3b0f7f1 patch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/luci-app-travelmate-arbitrary-command-execution-via-uci-script-parameter third-party-advisory