Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-48990
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.146
EPSS Ranking 94.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2024-48990
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:-
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:0.9
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.10
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.11
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.8
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:2.9
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:3.6