CVE-2024-48991

Published: Nov 19, 2024

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

Description

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).

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-2024-48991

issue-tracking

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59

patch

https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/42af5d328901287a4f79d1f5861ac827a53fd56d

patch

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

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CVE-2024-48991

Description

Affected Products

CVSS v3.1 Details

References