CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2024-48991
High (7.8) in needrestart project needrestart. EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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).
Severity
- EPSS
- 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- needrestart_project:needrestart
References
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/42af5d328901287a4f79d1f5861ac827a53fd56d
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48991
- https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17