CVE-2024-5290 Information

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.

Reference

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6945-1