CVE-2022-30688

HIGH

7.8

Description

needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published5/17/2022

Last Modified11/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxneedrestart_project:needrestart

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9(cve@mitre.org)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/15(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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