CVE-2024-48991 (GCVE-0-2024-48991)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:38 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:22
VLAI
Summary
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).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-19 19:36 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
needrestart needrestart Affected: 0 , < 3.8 (semver)
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needrestart_project needrestart Affected: 0 , < 3.8 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:needrestart_project:needrestart:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Qualys Thomas Liske Mark Esler Salvatore Bonaccorso Ivan Kurnosov
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              ],
              "url": "https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt"
            }
          ],
          "workarounds": [
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              "lang": "en",
              "value": "Edit /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf so that the following line\nappears after \"# Disable interpreter scanners.\" and reboot:\n$nrconf{interpscan} = 0;"
            }
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        }
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        "assignerShortName": "canonical",
        "cveId": "CVE-2024-48991",
        "datePublished": "2024-11-19T17:38:15.691Z",
        "dateReserved": "2024-10-11T16:13:54.153Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2025-11-03T22:22:10.925Z",
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    }
  }
}



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