Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-48992

High

Published: 19 November 2024

Published
19 November 2024
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0073 73.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-48992 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Needrestart Project Needrestart. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Ruby interpreter with an attacker-controlled RUBYLIB environment variable.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

needrestart project
needrestart
≤ 3.8

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References