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4 vulnerabilities by needrestart
CVE-2024-48992 (GCVE-0-2024-48992)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:38 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:22
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
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|---|---|---|---|
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Affected:
0 , < 3.8
(semver)
|
|
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Affected:
0 , < 3.8
(semver)
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CVE-2024-48991 (GCVE-0-2024-48991)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:38 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:22
VLAI
Summary
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).
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
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Affected:
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|
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CVE-2024-48990 (GCVE-0-2024-48990)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:38 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:22
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
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|---|---|---|---|
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Affected:
0 , < 3.8
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|
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Affected:
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CVE-2024-11003 (GCVE-0-2024-11003)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:36 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:51
VLAI
Summary
Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, passes unsanitized data to a library (Modules::ScanDeps) which expects safe input. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands. Please see the related CVE-2024-10224 in Modules::ScanDeps.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
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Affected:
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