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CVE-2024-5290

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Published: Aug 7, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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7.8
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 5.9
Source: NVD

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 (1)

1 product
Wpa Supplicant
Configuration A
1 vulnerable · 1 platform
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
All versions
Running on/withPlatform Versions
Canonical
Ubuntu Linux
All versions

References (3)

Source: security@ubuntu.com
ExploitIssue Tracking
Source: security@ubuntu.com
ExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: security@ubuntu.com
Vendor Advisory

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