CVE-2024-5290

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-427

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 products

Canonical Ltd. wpa_supplicant: all versions

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613
https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1

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