CVE-2024-5290
Published: 07 August 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-5290 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in W1.Fi Wpa Supplicant. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 45.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-46526
Vulnerability details
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…
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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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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CVE-2024-5290 in wpa_supplicant allows local unprivileged users (via netdev group or DBus access) to specify an arbitrary path for loading shared objects into the privileged wpa_supplicant process (running as root), enabling code execution and privilege escalation through exploitation.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.