CVE-2024-48990 PoC — needrestart 安全漏洞

Source

https://github.com/makuga01/CVE-2024-48990-PoC

Associated Vulnerability

Title: needrestart 安全漏洞 (CVE-2024-48990)
Description:Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Python interpreter with an attacker-controlled PYTHONPATH environment variable.

Description

PoC for CVE-2024-48990

Readme

# PoC for CVE-2024-48990 in `needrestart`

educational purposes only

https://www.qualys.com/2024/11/19/needrestart/needrestart.txt


## How to run?

Running `./start.sh` will compile the fake importlib library and start a script that waits for `needrestart` to be executed by root. It will pop a shell afterwards.

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