VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-48990

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability21.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-11-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-427

Primary references