VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-5290

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.65%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-08-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@ubuntu.com: CWE-427
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-427

Primary references