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
CVSS score not scored
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.