CVE-2024-48992: high-severity vulnerability in needrestart
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 8.0%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
needrestart · needrestartRelated CVEs — needrestart
In the same product, most dangerous first.
References
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/b5f25f6ec6e7dd0c5be249e4e45de4ee9ffe594fhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.htmlhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48992https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt