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CVE-2022-30688

Date: May 17, 2022

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.

Language: Perl

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-30688
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-30688
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-30688
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-30688

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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