CVE-2024-10224 – needrestart Local Privilege Escalation

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2024-10224

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(). Qualys discovered that needrestart suffers from multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that allow for root access from an unprivileged user. • https://github.com/rschupp/Module-ScanDeps/security/advisories/GHSA-g597-359q-v529 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10224 https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt • CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') •