CVE-2024-48991
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 5.3%
exploitation probability
5.3%top 8% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by winning a race condition and tricking needrestart into running their own, fake Python interpreter (instead of the system's real Python interpreter). The initial security fix (6ce6136) introduced a regression which was subsequently resolved (42af5d3).
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
needrestart · needrestartReferences
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/42af5d328901287a4f79d1f5861ac827a53fd56dhttps://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.htmlhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48991https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/30/4