CVE-2022-30688 Affecting needrestart package, versions <3.6-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NEEDRESTART-2833182
  • published18 May 2022
  • disclosed17 May 2022

Introduced: 17 May 2022

CVE-2022-30688  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable needrestart to version 3.6-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream needrestart package and not the needrestart package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1