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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-5290

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-c2m5-cmpw-rjcx

Published

August 7, 2024 9:31 AM

Last Modified

September 11, 2024 6:31 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: November 26, 2025 6:30 AM

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