CVE-2024-48990: Needrestart Project Needrestart

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 21.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

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

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