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CVE-2017-14483
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-15T10:29:00.277 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:06:13.937

Summary

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

gentoo — dev-python-flower

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