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    CVE-2017-14483

    flower.initd in the Gentoo dev-python/flower package before 0.9.1-r1 for Celery Flower sets PID file ownership to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command.

    Published:Sep 15, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Sep 15, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00028
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gentoo
    Product
    Dev-python-flower

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