CVE-2024-10224

medium

Description

Qualys discovered that if unsanitized input was used with the library Modules::ScanDeps, before version 1.36 a local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary shell commands by open()ing a "pesky pipe" (such as passing "commands|" as a filename) or by passing arbitrary strings to eval().

References

https://github.com/rschupp/Module-ScanDeps/security/advisories/GHSA-g597-359q-v529

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root/

https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/decades-old-security-vulnerabilities.html

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10224

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00015.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-19

Updated: 2024-12-03

Named Vulnerability: needrestart Local Privilege Escalation

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00207