CVE-2017-14483

MEDIUM

Gentoo dev-python/flower <0.9.1-r1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugs.gentoo.org/631020

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 7.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-362

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gentoo/dev-python-flower < 0.9.1

Timeline

Published Sep 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026