CVE-2024-5290

2024-08-0709:16:05

CWE-427

canonical

web.nvd.nist.gov

ubuntu

wpa_supplicant

privilege escalation

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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 configurations

Nvd

Node

w1.fiwpa_supplicantMatch-

AND

canonicalubuntu_linuxMatch-

VendorProductVersionCPE
w1.fiwpa_supplicant-cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:wpa_supplicant:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonicalubuntu_linux-cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
w1.fi	wpa_supplicant	-	cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:wpa_supplicant:-:::::::*
canonical	ubuntu_linux	-	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-:::::::*

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "Canonical Ltd.",
    "product": "wpa_supplicant",
    "platforms": [
      "Linux"
    ],
    "collectionURL": "https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/",
    "packageName": "wpa",
    "modules": [
      "runtime API to load OpenSC module or PKCS11 engine or module"
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "src/crypto/tls_openssl.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2:2.10-15",
        "lessThan": "2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2:2.9.0-21build1",
        "lessThan": "2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2:2.9-1ubuntu2",
        "lessThan": "2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.4-0ubuntu10",
        "lessThan": "2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.4-0ubuntu3",
        "lessThan": "2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.1-0ubuntu1",
        "lessThan": "2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]