CVE-2024-10224

Description

Qualys discovered that if unsanitized input was used with the library Modules::ScanDeps, before version 1.36 a local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary shell commands by open()ing a "pesky pipe" (such as passing "commands|" as a filename) or by passing arbitrary strings to eval().

References

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root/

https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/decades-old-security-vulnerabilities.html

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10224

https://github.com/rschupp/Module-ScanDeps/security/advisories/GHSA-g597-359q-v529

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3