Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-14483
CVE-2017-14483
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <0.9.1-r1
Patches
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References
1- bugs.gentoo.org/631020nvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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