Ubiquiti UniFi: Privilege Escalation — GLSA 202411-03

A vulnerability has been discovered in Ubiquiti UniFi, which can lead to local privilege escalation.

Affected packages

net-wireless/unifi on all architectures
Affected versions < 8.5.6
Unaffected versions >= 8.5.6

Background

Ubiquiti UniFi is a Management Controller for Ubiquiti Networks UniFi APs.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Ubiquiti UniFi. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact

The vulnerability allows a malicious actor with a local operational system user to execute high privilege actions on UniFi Network Server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ubiquiti UniFi users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/unifi-8.5.6"
 

References

Release date
November 06, 2024

Latest revision
November 06, 2024: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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