CVE-2024-5290
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.7%
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
- Canonical Ltd. · wpa_supplicant
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1 UBUNTU
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 50th percentile
- Published
- 2024-08-07
- Updated
- 2024-09-18
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613
- https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/
Security advisories
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1
- https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation