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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.","modified":"2026-04-22T15:18:53.559414Z","published":"2024-08-06T16:00:00Z","related":["USN-6945-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2024-5290"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-5290"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5290"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wpa","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wpa@2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5"}]}],"versions":["1.0-3ubuntu2","1.0-3ubuntu3","1.0-3ubuntu4","2.1-0ubuntu1","2.1-0ubuntu1.1","2.1-0ubuntu1.2","2.1-0ubuntu1.3","2.1-0ubuntu1.4","2.1-0ubuntu1.5","2.1-0ubuntu1.6","2.1-0ubuntu1.7"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5","binary_name":"hostapd"},{"binary_version":"2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5","binary_name":"wpagui"},{"binary_version":"2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5","binary_name":"wpasupplicant"}],"availability":"No 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