CVE-2022-30688

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    CVE-2022-30688

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/15, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17, https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6, https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00105.html, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/30xxx/CVE-2022-30688.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-30688, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5137, https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6e58136e1e3c92296e2e810cb8372a5fe0dbd30, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/17/9, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00024.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- a890fd20a9f303db8f77830052794d54e19a79fc
    Fixed -baf5e5480f6dc30b7f4bcb7030677e63dbbfd0a9

    Affected versions

    v3.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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