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CVE-2024-48990

7.8 highEPSS 21%

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.

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
21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-427
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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