# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-9050"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-22T12:14:31.701Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-25T23:57:18.543Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:24.991Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-9050"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-9050.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9050"
title: "Networkmanager-libreswan: local privilege escalation via leftupdown"
summary: "A flaw was found in the libreswan client plugin for NetworkManager (NetkworkManager-libreswan), where it fails to properly sanitize the VPN configuration from the local unprivileged user. In this configuration, composed by a key-value format, the plugin fails to escape special characters, leading the application to interpret values as keys. One of the most critical parameters that could be abused by a malicious user is the `leftupdown`key. This key takes an executable command as a value and is used to specify what executes as a callback in NetworkManager-libreswan to retrieve configuration settings back to NetworkManager. As NetworkManager uses Polkit to allow an unprivileged user to control the system's network configuration, a malicious actor could achieve local privilege escalation and potential code execution as root in the targeted machine by creating a malicious configuration."
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