Vulnerability details
CVE-2024-48992
needrestart needrestartneedrestart_project needrestart
CVSS 3.1
7.8High
Official description
Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Ruby interpreter with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable.
CVSS scores
| Score | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8High | 3.1 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (canonical) | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| needrestart | needrestart | v < 3.8 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) |
| needrestart_project | needrestart | v < 3.8 | CISA ADP / Vulnrichment |
References and advisories
6- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48992 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/b5f25f6ec6e7dd0c5be249e4e45de4ee9ffe594f patch
- https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt third-party-advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.html
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Details
- Published
- 2024-11-19
- Last updated
- 2025-11-04
- State
- Published
- Assigner (CNA)
- canonical
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
7.95%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
94.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)
SSVC assessment (CISA)
- Automatable
- No
- Exploitation
- None
- Technical impact
- Total
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-427Uncontrolled Search Path Element