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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2024-5290

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

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
canonical

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Canonical Ltd. wpa_supplicant

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2:2.10-15 to < 2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1affected
  • 2:2.9.0-21build1 to < 2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1affected
  • 2:2.9-1ubuntu2 to < 2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4affected
  • 2.4-0ubuntu10 to < 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1affected
  • 2.4-0ubuntu3 to < 2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1affected
  • 2.1-0ubuntu1 to < 2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5affected

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