CVE-2024-48990

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48990
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-48990.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-48990
Downstream
Published
2024-11-19T18:15:21.530Z
Modified
2026-03-11T13:48:48.839825Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/liske/needrestart

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/liske/needrestart
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
539233750b59ed3b39cb763f5ad43243c2eaf562
Fixed
fcc9a4401392231bef4ef5ed026a0d7a275149ab
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
untagged-8041ea07bb5db92f7693
v0.*
v0.1
v0.2
v0.3
v0.4
v0.5
v0.6
v0.7
v0.8
v0.9
v1.*
v1.0
v1.1
v1.2
v2.*
v2.0
v2.1
v2.10
v2.11
v2.2
v2.3
v2.4
v2.5
v2.6
v2.7
v2.8
v2.9
v3.*
v3.0
v3.1
v3.2
v3.3
v3.4
v3.5
v3.6
v3.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-48990.json"