CVE-2011-4356
Celery local privilege escalation vulnerability
EPSS 0.05%
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.
How to fix CVE-2011-4356
To remediate CVE-2011-4356, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/celery—upgrade to 2.4.6-1 or later
- PyPI/celery—upgrade to 2.2.8 or later
- —upgrade to 2.2.8 or later
Is CVE-2011-4356 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2.4.6-1
- >= 2.1.0, < 2.2.8
- >= 2.1, < 2.2.8, >= 2.3, < 2.3.4, >= 2.4, < 2.4.4