GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-rpc6-h455-3rx5 Celery local privilege escalation vulnerability
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2011-4356
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- celery
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
- Reviewed
- 2024-05-01
Affected packages
• PyPI celery: >= 2.1.0, < 2.2.8 → fixed in 2.2.8
• PyPI celery: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 → fixed in 2.3.4
• PyPI celery: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.4 → fixed in 2.4.4
Description
Celery 2.1 and 2.2 before 2.2.8, 2.3 before 2.3.4, and 2.4 before 2.4.4 changes the effective id but not the real id during processing of the --uid and --gid arguments to celerybeat, celeryd_detach, celeryd-multi, and celeryev, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving crafted code that is executed by the worker process.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2011-4356 Celery 2.1 and 2.2 before 2.2.8, 2.3 before 2.3.4, and 2.4 before 2.4.4 changes the effective id but not the real id during processing of… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4356 advisory
- https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/544 web
- https://github.com/celery/celery/commit/53514b158b743678d8993638be5920cd09ccc35c web
- https://github.com/celery/celery/commit/73388921731a0e6feb28ab0d389c4f7dc4d524f6 web
- https://github.com/celery/celery/commit/e0767e40994754fe8482bf4ff622c5c6d0b9f671 web
- https://github.com/celery/celery package
- https://github.com/celery/celery/blob/master/docs/sec/CELERYSA-0001.txt web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/celery/PYSEC-2011-17.yaml web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140722114447/http://secunia.com/advisories/46973 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200305001706/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50825 web