CVE-2024-48990

HIGH

7.8

Description

Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Python interpreter with an attacker-controlled PYTHONPATH environment variable.

Details CVE

Score CVSS v3.17.8

SeveriteHIGH

Vecteur CVSSCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vecteur d'attaqueLOCAL

ComplexiteLOW

Privileges requisLOW

Interaction utilisateurNONE

Publie11/19/2024

Derniere modification11/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Observations honeypot0

Produits affectes

needrestart_project:needrestart

Faiblesses (CWE)

CWE-427

References

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/fcc9a4401392231bef4ef5ed026a0d7a275149ab(security@ubuntu.com)

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48990(security@ubuntu.com)

https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt(security@ubuntu.com)

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

Correlations IOC

Aucune correlation enregistree

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