{"id":"CVE-2024-11003","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-11003","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T20:59:43.744Z","title":"This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands.","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.","published":"2024-11-19T18:15:20.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T06:56:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@ubuntu.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-78"],"affected":["needrestart project/needrestart"],"epss":{"score":0.12041,"percentile":0.96144,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/0f80a348883f72279a859ee655f58da34babefb0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10224","tags":["VDB Entry"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11003","tags":["VDB Entry"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Nov/17","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00014.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11003","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}