CVE-2011-4356 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-4356

Celery 2.1 and 2.2 before 2.2.8, 2.3 before 2.3.4, and...

Vulnerability 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 Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

celeryproject

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Affected Software

celery
Vulnerable Versions:
2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3

Timeline

Official Publish: December 5th, 2011
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.