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Linux Privilege Escalation via PYTHONPATH Manipulation

Attackers can escalate privileges on Linux systems by abusing the PYTHONPATH environment variable to force privileged processes, specifically the NeedRestart utility (CVE-2024-48990), to load malicious shared objects.

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