CVE-2024-5290

Publication date 6 August 2024

Last updated 11 September 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wpa	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5 Ubuntu Pro

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6945-1
wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability
6 August 2024