7.8
HIGH
CVE-2024-48992
Qualys needrestart Ruby Injection
Description

Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Ruby interpreter with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 19, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Dec. 3, 2024, 2:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2024-48992 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-48992 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Needrestart_project needrestart
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Born at : Dec. 9, 2024, 4:28 a.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

A Local Privilege Escalation poc scipts for CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003

cve-2024-48992 cve-2024-48991 cve-2024-10224 cve-2024-11003 cve-2024-48990

Updated: 1 month ago
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Born at : Nov. 24, 2024, 6:54 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2024-48992 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • seclists.org
Re: Local Privilege Escalations in needrestart

Qualys Security Advisory LPEs in needrestart (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003) ====================================================================== ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 27, 2024 (4 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • seclists.org
Local Privilege Escalations in needrestart

Full Disclosure mailing list archives From: Qualys Security Advisory via Fulldisclosure <fulldisclosure () seclists org> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:28:37 +0000 Qualys Security Advisory LPEs in needrest ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 21, 2024 (1 month ago)
  • The Register
'Alarming' bugs lay low in Ubuntu Server utility for 10 years

Researchers at Qualys refuse to release exploit code for five bugs in the Linux world's needrestart utility that allow unprivileged local attackers to gain root access without any user interaction. Th ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 21, 2024 (1 month ago)
  • BleepingComputer
Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old 'needrestart' flaw that gives root

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04. The flaws were disc ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 20, 2024 (1 month ago)
  • The Hacker News
Decades-Old Security Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu's Needrestart Package

Multiple decade-old security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the needrestart package installed by default in Ubuntu Server (since version 21.04) that could allow a local attacker to gain root p ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 20, 2024 (1 month ago)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-48992 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Dec. 03, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1
  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Nov. 19, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE CISA-ADP CWE-427
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Nov. 19, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Ruby interpreter with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable.
    Added Reference Canonical Ltd. https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-48992 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Canonical Ltd. https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/b5f25f6ec6e7dd0c5be249e4e45de4ee9ffe594f [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Canonical Ltd. https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt [No types assigned]
    Added CVSS V3.1 Canonical Ltd. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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