DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-48990
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990
Upstream
Published
2024-11-19T18:15:21.530Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:17:28.039467Z
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

Debian:11 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.5-4+deb11u4

Affected versions

3.*

3.5-4
3.5-4+deb11u1
3.5-4+deb11u2
3.5-4+deb11u3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990.json"

Debian:12 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6-4+deb12u2

Affected versions

3.*

3.6-4
3.6-4+deb12u1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990.json"

Debian:13 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.7-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990.json"

Debian:14 / needrestart

Package

Name
needrestart
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/needrestart?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.7-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48990.json"