CVE-2011-4356

Summary

CVECVE-2011-4356
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-12-05 11:55:00 UTC
Updated2012-01-03 16:38:00 UTC
DescriptionCelery 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.1.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.1 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.2 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.3 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.4 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.5 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.6 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.7 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.1 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.2 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.3 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.1 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.2 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.3 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.1.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.1 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.2 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.3 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.4 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.5 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.6 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.2.7 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.1 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.2 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.3.3 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.0 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.1 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.2 All All All
Application Celeryproject Celery 2.4.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Celery Argument Processing Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
celery/CELERYSA-0001.txt at master · ask/celery · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch
Security Advisory SA46973 - Celery Argument Processing Privilege Escalation Security Issue - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
github.com/ask/celery/pull/544 CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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