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CVE record · CVE-2024-5290

Uncontrolled search path in Canonical Ltd. wpa_supplicant

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0065 · 51st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: canonical) at 7 Aug 2024, 08:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Canonical Ltd. wpa_supplicant Package name: wpa https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/
  • affected 2:2.10-15 to before 2:2.10-21ubuntu0.1 semver
  • affected 2:2.9.0-21build1 to before 2:2.10-6ubuntu2.1 semver
  • affected 2:2.9-1ubuntu2 to before 2:2.9-1ubuntu4.4 semver
  • affected 2.4-0ubuntu10 to before 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.8+esm1 semver
  • affected 2.4-0ubuntu3 to before 2.4-0ubuntu6.8+esm1 semver
  • affected 2.1-0ubuntu1 to before 2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm5 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2024-5290
CNA
canonical
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-427
Tags
Published
7 Aug 2024
Updated
18 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (canonical)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0065, the 51st percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 7 Aug 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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