Security Advisory

CVE-2022-30688

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-05-17 18:58:09
Last updated 2025-11-03 21:46:15
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.