CVE-2024-489917.8HighCWE-362

CVE-2024-48991: needrestart vulnerability

needrestart

Fixed in 3.8 · Affected: needrestart before 3.8 · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

6.1%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

93rd percentile

050100

Higher than 93% of scored CVEs

7.8HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

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).

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

needrestart · needrestartbefore 3.8

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Race Condition · Race Conditions
Published: November 2024
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), November 2024

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