HIGH 8.8 Microsoft
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 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.
Microsoft Security Update 2024-Aug: 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
- azl3 wpa_supplicant 2.10-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 wpa_supplicant 2.10-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 wpa_supplicant 2.10-3 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5290
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5290
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8 was published on 2024-08-13 via Microsoft. Affected: azl3 wpa_supplicant 2.10-3 on Azure Linux 3.0, cbl2 wpa_supplicant 2.10-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0, cbl2 wpa_supplicant 2.10-3 on CBL-Mariner 2.0.
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