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Vulnerability · Published Nov 19, 2024 · Assigned by canonical

CVE-2024-48992

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled search path in needrestart from needrestart. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 8.0% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)8.0%top 5.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12needrestart3.6-4+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48992
Debian:12needrestart3.6-4+deb12u2DSA-5815-1
Debian:13needrestart3.7-3.1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48992
Debian:14needrestart3.7-3.1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48992
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibmodule-scandeps-perl1.31-1ubuntu0.1USN-7117-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlibmodule-scandeps-perl1.35-1ubuntu0.24.04.1USN-7117-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSneedrestart3.5-5ubuntu2.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48992
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSneedrestart3.5-5ubuntu2.2USN-7117-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSneedrestart3.6-7ubuntu4.3USN-7117-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSneedrestart3.6-7ubuntu4.3UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48992

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
needrestart needrestart 0 – before 3.8

Weakness: CWE-427 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References