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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 Sep 15, 2017

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.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-362

Race Condition

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 15, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Sep 15, 2017
Link CVE-2017-14483
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-14483
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-14483