CVE-2024-48990
HIGH7.8EPSS 15.2%Published: 11/19/2024Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/needrestartfrom 0, < 3.5-4+deb11u4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |