CVE-2024-11003

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

needrestart

CVSS v3.1 UBUNTU

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

12.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2024-11-19

Updated

2025-11-03

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• sychikov/CVE-2024-11003-POC0★ · 2026-02-21

Security advisories

• https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt
• liske/needrestart/commit/0f80a348883f72279a859ee655f58da34babefb0

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2024-10224