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CVE-2024-5290
high
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.
References
https://securelist.com/exploits-and-vulnerabilities-q3-2024/114839/
https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/