CVE-2024-11003
This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.0%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 12.04% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- needrestart project/needrestart
- Source
- security@ubuntu.com
EPSS 12.0% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/0f80a348883f72279a859ee655f58da34babefb0Patch
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10224VDB Entry
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11003VDB Entry
- https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txtThird Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1Mailing List
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.