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.

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Published Date :

2024-11-19T17:38:07.238Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-03T22:22:08.006Z

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-48990 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Needrestart Project
  • Needrestart
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-48990.

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http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17 cve-icon
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/fcc9a4401392231bef4ef5ed026a0d7a275149ab cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.html cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48990 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1 cve-icon
https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt cve-icon cve-icon
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