Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-11449 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-11449 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-11449?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.3, published 7 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- GL.iNet GL-MT3000 Firmware 4.4.5.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-11449?
- A patch was published on 2026-08-19: Firmware version 4.8.1 released Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-11449 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-11449?
- Check whether you run GL.iNet GL-MT3000 Firmware at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A command injection vulnerability exists in the LuCI JSON-RPC interface of GL.iNet GL-MT3000 firmware version 4.4.5. The vulnerability is located in the rpc_sys function within /cgi-bin/luci/rpc. The root cause is a failure to implement a method whitelist when cloning the luci.sys module; the jsonrpc.handle function uses reflective table lookup (rawget) to dispatch requested methods. Because luci.sys.exec is aliased to luci.util.exec (which utilizes io.popen), an authenticated attacker with root-level credentials can execute arbitrary shell commands as root and receive the output in the JSON-RPC response. The vendor has mitigated this in newer versions (4.7.13+) by removing LuCI by default and has released a fix in version 4.8.1.
Affected products
- GL.iNet GL-MT3000 Firmware 4.4.5
Timeline
- 2026-05-11: disclosed: Vulnerability submitted by researcher
- 2026-06-07: advisory: NVD publication date
- 2026-08-19: patched: Firmware version 4.8.1 released