medium5.5
CVE-2017-14483
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 u…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gentoo | Dev-Python-Flower | through 0.9.1 |