module

Ubuntu needrestart Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
Nov 19, 2024

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
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