CVE-2024-48991

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48991
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-48991.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-48991
Downstream
CLSA (3)
DEBIAN (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2024-11-19T17:38:15Z
Modified
2026-10-21T02:31:02Z
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 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).

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "canonical",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/48xxx/CVE-2024-48991.json"
}
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
42af5d328901287a4f79d1f5861ac827a53fd56d
Fixed
6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "3.8"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "42af5d328901287a4f79d1f5861ac827a53fd56d"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "6ce6136cccc307c6b8a0f8cae12f9a22ac2aad59"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

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
v2.2
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/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-48991.json"