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CVE-2022-30688

Publication date 17 May 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
needrestart 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.5-5ubuntu2.1
21.10 impish
Fixed 3.5-4ubuntu2.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 3.4-6ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 3.1-1ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5426-1
    • needrestart vulnerability
    • 17 May 2022

Other references