🛡️ CVE-2022-30688
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
needrestart 0.8 3.6

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6

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