Code Injection in needrestart - CVE-2024-48992

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Code Injection in needrestart - CVE-2024-48992

Published: November 27, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU100984
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-48992
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure handling of environment variables. A local user can trick the application into running the Ruby interpreter with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable and execute arbitrary code on the system as root.

Affected software

needrestart
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
Ubuntu
libmodule-scandeps-perl (Ubuntu package)
needrestart (Ubuntu package)
needrestart
app-admin/needrestart
needrestart (Debian package)
OpenManage Network Integration (OMNI)

How to mitigate CVE-2024-48992

Install updates from vendor's website.

needrestart - update to 3.8
libmodule-scandeps-perl (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.20-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.24-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.31-1ubuntu0.1, 1.35-1ubuntu0.24.04.1, 1.35-1ubuntu0.24.10.1
needrestart (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 2.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm1, 3.4-6ubuntu0.1+esm1, 3.5-5ubuntu2.2, 3.5-5ubuntu2.3, 3.5-5ubuntu2.4, 3.6-7ubuntu4.3, 3.6-7ubuntu4.4, 3.6-7ubuntu4.5, 3.6-8ubuntu4.2, 3.6-8ubuntu4.3, 3.6-8ubuntu4.4
needrestart - addressed in versions 3.8-1.el8, 3.8-1.el9, 3.8-1.fc39, 3.8-1.fc40, 3.8-1.fc41
OpenManage Network Integration (OMNI) - update to 3.7
app-admin/needrestart - update to 3.8
needrestart (Debian package) - update to 3.6-4+deb12u2

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