Security Advisory
CVE-2022-30688
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.
Published Date
May 17, 2022
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory