CVE-2022-30688

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-30688
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-30688.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-30688
Downstream
Published
2022-05-17T19:15:08.743Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:00:36.765285Z
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

needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/liske/needrestart

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/liske/needrestart
Events
Introduced
a890fd20a9f303db8f77830052794d54e19a79fc
Fixed
baf5e5480f6dc30b7f4bcb7030677e63dbbfd0a9
Fixed
e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.8"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
untagged-8041ea07bb5db92f7693
v0.*
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

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "11.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-30688.json"