CVE-2017-14483

MEDIUM

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

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.gentoo.org/631020

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (1)
gentoo/dev-python-flower < 0.9.1
Published Sep 15, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026