CVE-2026-72841: openwrt luci

luci-app-openvpn Path Traversal RCE via instance_name2

CVSS 9.4 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0062 · 49th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.4: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 13 Aug 2026, 21:54 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
openwrt	luci	affected before 24.10.7 custom affected 25.12.0 to before 25.12.4 custom Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-72841

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-73

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.4	Critical	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
9.9	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0062, the 49th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 13 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/openwrt/luci/security/advisories/GHSA-jjcx-c284-2qv8 vendor-advisory
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/luci-app-openvpn-path-traversal-rce-via-instance-name2 third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.