{"id":"CVE-2024-5290","details":"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).\n\n\n\n\nMembership 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.","modified":"2026-04-10T05:18:44.700406Z","published":"2024-08-07T09:16:05Z","related":["CGA-5wf3-hgjp-47c3"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}