CVE-2022-30688 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8