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Ubuntu needrestart Privilege Escalation

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Disclosed
2024-11-19
Created
2025-01-10

Description

Local attackers can execute arbitrary code as root by
tricking needrestart into running the Python interpreter with an
attacker-controlled PYTHONPATH environment variable.

Verified against Ubuntu 22.04 with needrestart 3.5-5ubuntu2.1
Attempted exploitation against Debian 12, expliotation failed

Authors

h00die
makuga01
qualys

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86, x64

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


    msf > use exploit/linux/local/ubuntu_needrestart_lpe
    msf exploit(ubuntu_needrestart_lpe) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ubuntu_needrestart_lpe) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ubuntu_needrestart_lpe) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ubuntu_needrestart_lpe) > exploit
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