CVE-2024-11003

7.8 highEPSS 12%

High (7.8) in needrestart project needrestart. EPSS 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, passes unsanitized data to a library (Modules::ScanDeps) which expects safe input. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands. Please see the related CVE-2024-10224 in Modules::ScanDeps.

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: 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2024-11-19
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

needrestart_project:needrestart

References

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/0f80a348883f72279a859ee655f58da34babefb0
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10224
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11003
https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17

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