### [CVE-2024-48990](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-48990)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=needrestart&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=0%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)

### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/Cyb3rFr0g/CVE-2024-48990-PoC
- https://github.com/CyberCrowCC/CVE-2024-48990
- https://github.com/NullByte-7w7/CVE-2024-48990
- https://github.com/R0XDEADBEEF/CVE-2024-48990
- https://github.com/ally-petitt/CVE-2024-48990-Exploit
- https://github.com/felmoltor/CVE-2024-48990
- https://github.com/makuga01/CVE-2024-48990-PoC
- https://github.com/nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub
- https://github.com/ns989/CVE-2024-48990
- https://github.com/pawan-shivarkar/List-of-CVE-s-
- https://github.com/pawan-shivarkar/pawan-shivarkar
- https://github.com/pentestfunctions/CVE-2024-48990-PoC-Testing
- https://github.com/plzheheplztrying/cve_monitor
- https://github.com/r0xDB/CVE-2024-48990
- https://github.com/r0xdeadbeef/CVE-2024-48990
- https://github.com/ten-ops/CVE-2024-48990_needrestart
- https://github.com/zhanpengliu-tencent/medium-cve