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.
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Information
Published : 2022-05-17 19:15
Updated : 2025-11-03 22:15
NVD link : CVE-2022-30688
Mitre link : CVE-2022-30688
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-30688
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
needrestart_project
- needrestart
CWE
