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Vulnerability · Published Nov 19, 2024 · Assigned by canonical

CVE-2024-48990

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 21.3% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)21.3%top 2.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling2Metasploit, Public PoC

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 Python interpreter with an attacker-controlled PYTHONPATH environment variable.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12needrestart3.6-4+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990
Debian:12needrestart3.6-4+deb12u2DSA-5815-1
Debian:13needrestart3.7-3.1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990
Debian:14needrestart3.7-3.1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990
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:LTSneedrestart3.5-5ubuntu2.2USN-7117-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSneedrestart3.5-5ubuntu2.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48990
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSneedrestart3.6-7ubuntu4.3USN-7117-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSneedrestart3.6-7ubuntu4.3UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48990

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