CVE-2011-4356 (GCVE-0-2011-4356)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-12-05 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:09
VLAI
Summary
Celery 2.1 and 2.2 before 2.2.8, 2.3 before 2.3.4, and 2.4 before 2.4.4 changes the effective id but not the real id during processing of the --uid and --gid arguments to celerybeat, celeryd_detach, celeryd-multi, and celeryev, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving crafted code that is executed by the worker process.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1035 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/46973 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50825 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/ask/celery/blob/master/docs/se… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/ask/celery/pull/544 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2011-11-25 00:00
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