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CVE-2022-30688

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.41% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-05-17 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2022-30688
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.41%

Original NVD Description

needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files.