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CVE-2022-30688

7.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
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Modified
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