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CVE-2022-30688

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2022-05-17 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Debian Debian LinuxNeedrestart Project Needrestart

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References