CVE-2024-5290: w1.fi Wpa Supplicant

High severity, CVSS 7.8. 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.

Affected products

• w1.fi Wpa Supplicant: affected versions not specified

Published 2024-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.