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<glsa id="202411-03">
    <title>Ubiquiti UniFi: Privilege Escalation</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Ubiquiti UniFi, which can lead to local privilege escalation.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">unifi</product>
    <announced>2024-11-06</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-11-06</revised>
    <bug>941922</bug>
    <access>local</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="net-wireless/unifi" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">8.5.6</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">8.5.6</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Ubiquiti UniFi is a Management Controller for Ubiquiti Networks UniFi APs.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Ubiquiti UniFi. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="high">
        <p>The vulnerability allows a malicious actor with a local operational system user to execute high privilege actions on UniFi Network Server.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Ubiquiti UniFi users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/unifi-8.5.6"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42028">CVE-2024-42028</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-11-06T12:57:53.228208Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-11-06T12:57:53.232043Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>