Upstream information

CVE-2024-48990 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: New

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (Canonical)
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1233620 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Nov 21 17:30:17 2024
CVE page last modified: Thu Nov 21 19:58:14 2024