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CVE-2024-5290

Published: Aug 7, 2024Updated: Sep 17, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-427
8.8HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.7%
Top 53.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:LUI:NS:CC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-427

Affected Products

wpa_supplicantCanonical Ltd.
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
wpa supplicantw1.fi
EmbeddedLibrary
Networking Infrastructure / network-management
UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
WPA SupplicantJouni Malinen
Embedded
Networking Infrastructure / network-management
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
w1.fioss-projectNetworking Infrastructureaka hostapd, wpa_supplicant, wpa supplicant
jouni malinenindividual-devNetworking Infrastructureaka hostapd, wpa_supplicant
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
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Exploitability

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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Persistence
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References

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

Published
Aug 7, 2024
Last Updated
Sep 17, 2024

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