CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-5290
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-08-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Description
An issue was discovered in Ubuntu wpa_supplicant that resulted in loading of arbitrary shared objects, which allows a local unprivileged attacker to escalate privileges to the user that wpa_supplicant runs as (usually root).
Membership in the netdev group or access to the dbus interface of wpa_supplicant allow an unprivileged user to specify an arbitrary path to a module to be loaded by the wpa_supplicant process; other escalation paths might exist.
Affected configurations
• w1.fi wpa supplicant
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1 Vendor Advisory