CVE-2024-48990

CVE-2024-48990 POC Overview 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. This repository contains a...

CVE-2024-48990-PoC

CVE-2024-48990-PoC What is needrestart and how does it work? Needrestart is a widely used utility on Linux systems default on many Ubuntu versions that checks after a software update whether any service or the system itself needs to be restarted. By analyzing running processes, it determines if...

EUVD-2012-5542

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needrestart Code Execution Root

The vulnerability of the needrestart utility is related to an uncontrolled element in the search process. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code in the context of the root user by manipulating the PYTHONPATH variable during Python initialization...