CVE-2024-48991
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Nov 19, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 11, 2024
Description
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).
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | canonical |
Weaknesses
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
needrestartneedrestart |
|
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48991issue-tracking
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59patch
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/42af5d328901287a4f79d1f5861ac827a53fd56dpatch
- https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txtthird-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/30/4
- 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
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