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CVE-2024-5290

7.8 highEPSS 0.7%

High (7.8) in w1.fi wpa supplicant. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-427
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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