CVE-2024-5290
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.31%wpa - security update
Published: 8/7/2024Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (2)
- Debian/wpafrom 0, < 2:2.9.0-21+deb11u2
- Debian/wpafrom 0, < 2:2.9.0-21+deb11u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |