Is CVE-2024-48990 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2024-48990 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2024-48990?

CVE-2024-48990 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-48990?

CVE-2024-48990 has an EPSS score of 19.92% (97th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2024-48990

HIGHEPSS 97th pctl

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Qualys discovered that needrestart, before version 3.8, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by tricking needrestart into running the Python interpreter with an attacker-controlled PYTHONPATH environment variable.

CWE-427

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

19.92%probability of exploitation in 30 days

97thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-11-03.