Canonical wpa_supplicant uncontrolled search path

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Canonical wpa_supplicant. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-5290. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Canonical wpa_supplicant (unknown version) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was released by Rory Mcnamara. The advisory is available at bugs.launchpad.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-5290 since 05/23/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch 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 is able to eliminate this problem.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Uncontrolled search path
CWE: CWE-427 / CWE-426
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: 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

Timelineinfo

05/23/2024 🔍
08/07/2024 +76 days 🔍
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09/17/2024 +41 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugs.launchpad.net
Researcher: Rory Mcnamara
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-5290 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-5290
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-273866

Entryinfo

Created: 08/07/2024 10:39
Updated: 09/17/2024 18:23
Changes: 08/07/2024 10:39 (62), 09/12/2024 03:17 (2), 09/17/2024 18:23 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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