8.8

CVE-2024-5290: canonical ltd. wpa_supplicant Uncontrolled Search Path Element

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-5290USN-6945-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5290
Published 07-08-2024Last modified 18-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-5290 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in canonical ltd. wpa_supplicant. EPSS estimates a 0.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk
45/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.65%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits2reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 1
CGA-5WF3-HGJP-47C3

Timeline

  1. 07-08-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 18-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.65%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

50%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.65% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.65%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

2 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugs.launchpad.net)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (snyk.io)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Canonical ltd.1 product
  • wpa_supplicant≥ 2:2.10-15, < 2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1 | ≥ 2:2.9.0-21build1, < 2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1 | ≥ 2:2.9-1ubuntu2, < 2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4 | ≥ 2.4-0ubuntu10, < 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1 | ≥ 2.4-0ubuntu3, < 2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1 | ≥ 2.1-0ubuntu1, < 2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5
Chainguard1 product
  • wpa_supplicant< 2.11-r1
Debian1 product
  • wpa< 2:2.10-22 | < 2:2.9.0-21+deb11u2 | < 2:2.10-12+deb12u2
Ubuntu1 product
  • wpa< 2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5 | < 2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1 | < 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1 | < 2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4 | < 2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1 | < 2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1
W1.fi1 product

5 vendors · 5 products

References

7 links