Description
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.
Published: 2017-09-15
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-5986 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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Gentoo Dev-python-flower
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2017-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-14483

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-14483

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