CVE-2024-5290

HIGH

wpa_supplicant - Uncontrolled Search Path Element via Arbitrary Module Loading

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0066
EPSS Percentile 46.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-427
Status published
Products (1)
w1.fi/wpa_supplicant
Published Aug 07, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026