CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. It affects Ubuntu.
CVE
CVE-2024-5290
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
0.65%
Ubuntu
Original NVD 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.
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