cve/2024/CVE-2024-5290.md

CVE-2024-5290

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613
• https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/

Github

• https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds