Qualys TRU Uncovers Five Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in needrestart | Qualys Security Blog
The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified five Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities within the needrestart component, which is installed by default on Ubuntu Server. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by any unprivileged user to gain full root access without requiring user interaction. The identified flaws have been assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, CVE-2024-10224, and CVE-2024-11003, highlighting the need for immediate remediation to protect system integrity. Our TRU team has successfully developed functional exploits for these vulnerabilities. While we will not disclose our exploits, please be aware that these vulnerabilities are easily exploitable, and other researchers may release working exploits shortly following this coordinated disclosure. These vulnerabilities have been present since the introduction of interpreter support in needrestart version 0.8, released in April 2014.
regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server
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The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…
PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…
Qualys TRU Discovers Important Vulnerabilities in GNU C Library’s syslog()
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PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…
PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…
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The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Library's dynamic loader's processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES…
CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent
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Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine)
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PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…
Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine)
We recently audited snap-confine (a SUID-root program that is installed by default on Ubuntu) and discovered two vulnerabilities (two Local Privilege Escalations, from any user to root): CVE-2021-44730 and CVE-2021-44731.
PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…
Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine)
We recently audited snap-confine (a SUID-root program that is installed by default on Ubuntu) and discovered two vulnerabilities (two Local Privilege Escalations, from any user to root): CVE-2021-44730 and CVE-2021-44731.
PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…