CVE-2011-4356

Advisory

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.

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Vulnerability changelog

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Resources

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4356
• https://github.com/ask/celery/blob/master/docs/sec/CELERYSA-0001.txt
• https://github.com/ask/celery/pull/544
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46973
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50825
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4356