CVE-2024-48990 — needrestart / needrestart

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
needrestart / needrestart	affected 0 before 3.8

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48990
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/fcc9a4401392231bef4ef5ed026a0d7a275149ab
https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.

CVE

No English description supplied.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.html