CVE-2024-5290 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu's wpa_supplicant, allowing a local unprivileged attacker to load arbitrary shared objects and gain root privileges. The vulnerability affects Canonical Ubuntu Linux and wpa_supplicant versions. It carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:wpa_supplicant:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Oct 29, 2024An 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.
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