CVE-2024-11003: Needrestart Project Needrestart

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 11.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, passes unsanitized data to a library (Modules::ScanDeps) which expects safe input. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands. Please see the related CVE-2024-10224 in Modules::ScanDeps.

Affected products

• Needrestart Project Needrestart: before 3.8 (fixed in 3.8)

Published 2024-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.