CVE-2021-23727

Summary

CVECVE-2021-23727
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-29 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThis affects the package celery before 5.2.2. It by default trusts the messages and metadata stored in backends (result stores). When reading task metadata from the backend, the data is deserialized. Given that an attacker can gain access to, or somehow manipulate the metadata within a celery backend, they could trigger a stored command injection vulnerability and potentially gain further access to the system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-77

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Celeryproject Celery All All All All
Application Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Fedoraproject Fedora Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: python-celery-5.2.3-2.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
github.com/celery/celery/blob/master/Changelog.rst%23522 MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: python-celery-5.2.3-2.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Stored Command Injection in celery | CVE-2021-23727 | Snyk MISC snyk.io
celery/Changelog.rst at master · celery/celery · GitHub MITRE github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Calum Hutton from Snyk Research Team

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184288 Debian Security Update for celery (CVE-2021-23727)
  • 282246 Fedora Security Update for python (FEDORA-2022-1dae017601)
  • 691131 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for py39 (0a38a0d9-757f-4ac3-9561-b439e933dfa9)
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