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CVE-2011-4356

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
05/12/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
6.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:celeryproject:celery:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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