CVE-2026-69096 OpenWrt luci-app-dockerman Read ACL Remote Code Execution
An authenticated attacker with read access can inject shell commands via the Docker plugin's RPC backend to execute arbitrary code as root.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-69096?
CVE-2026-69096 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in openwrt luci, published on 3 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
OpenWrt luci-app-dockerman (LuCI master and openwrt-25.12 snapshots containing the ucode docker_rpc.uc RPC backend after the JS/ucode conversion) contains an OS command injection vulnerability. The package's read ACL grants broad ubus access to docker.* / docker.container.*, which exposes the docker.container.ttyd_start method even though it performs mutating operations. The run_ttyd handler builds a shell command from the request-controlled id, cmd, and uid fields and passes it to system() without quoting or argv-style execution in the rpcd root context. An authenticated attacker holding only the luci-app-dockerman read ACL can inject shell metacharacters (e.g., in id) to execute arbitrary commands as root via an HTTP POST to /ubus. openwrt-24.10 and openwrt-23.05 do not contain this backend and are not affected; no patched version was known as of the advisory.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-69096?
How do I fix CVE-2026-69096?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-69096 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2026-69096 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-69096 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cq4h-h8jr-3xqv, GHSA-wjfh-jfr9-fxvm.