CVE-2026-104474
Description
OpenLiteSpeed before 1.9.3 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in admin/misc/lsup.sh that runs unverified update packages from a nobody-writable directory as root. Attackers controlling the nobody web process can replace the package in /usr/local/lsws/autoupdate/ before extraction, so its install.sh runs as root on the next update.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/litespeedtech/openlitespeed/blob/v1.9.2/dist/admin/misc/lsup.sh#L538
- https://github.com/litespeedtech/openlitespeed/commit/468523ce84388cea9ba6633c26517bc05b3e2bc1
- https://openlitespeed.org/release-log/version-1-9-x/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openlitespeed-before-1.9.3-local-privilege-escalation-via-lsup-sh-auto-update
CWEs
CWE-367
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.