CVE-2024-11003

Published: Nov 19, 2024

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
needrestart	needrestart	affected `0 - < 3.8`

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11003

issue-tracking

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/0f80a348883f72279a859ee655f58da34babefb0

patch

https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt

third-party-advisory

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10224

issue-tracking

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CVE-2024-11003

Description

Affected Products

CVSS v3.1 Details

References