Vulnerability in Gentoo Dev-Python-Flower

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.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (9.6th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 10th percentile — 9.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2017-14483: held from 0.002 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14483?
CVE-2017-14483 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gentoo Dev-Python-Flower, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-09-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-14483?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.