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CVE-2017-14483

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Published: Sep 15, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Gentoo
1 product
Dev Python Flower
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Dev Python Flower
Up to 0.9.1

Related CWEs

CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (2)

Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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