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://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-07

Updated: 2024-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High