cve/2022/CVE-2022-30688.md

### [CVE-2022-30688](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-30688)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/releases/tag/v3.6

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.