Vulnerability CVE-2022-30688
Published: 2022-05-17

Description:
needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
needrestart Local Privilege Escalation
Qualys Security ...
28.11.2024

Type:

CWE-269

 (Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Needrestart project -> Needrestart 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html
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