CVE-2022-30688

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 products

Linuxmint, Ubuntu, Needrestart

Needrestart Project Needrestart

< 3.6

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.1

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

0.4% (34th percentile)

NVD status

Modified

Published

2022-05-17