FKIE_CVE-2024-5290

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-07 09:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:15
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613Exploit, Issue Tracking
security@ubuntu.comhttps://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
w1.fi wpa_supplicant -
canonical ubuntu_linux -
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