flower.initd in the Gentoo dev-python/flower package before 0.9.1-r1 for Celery Flower sets PID file ownership to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-15T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:27:40.698Z

Reserved: 2017-09-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-14483

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-09-15T10:29:00.277

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-14483

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