CVE-2024-48990 | THREATINT

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.

Reserved 2024-10-11 | Published 2024-11-19 | Updated 2024-11-19 | Assigner canonical

HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Product status

Any version before 3.8

affected

Credits

Qualys finder

Thomas Liske remediation developer

Mark Esler coordinator

References

www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48990 issue-tracking

github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/fcc9a4401392231bef4ef5ed026a0d7a275149ab patch

www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2024-48990)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-48990)

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