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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2011-4356)

Fixes CELERYSA-0001 :

  -     https://github.com/ask/celery/blob/master/docs/sec/CELER     YSA-0001.txt

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
433825	SCA: security update for celery (GHSA-rpc6-h455-3rx5)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
433825	SCA: security update for celery (GHSA-rpc6-h455-3rx5)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
57075	Fedora 15 : python-celery-2.2.8-1.fc15 (2011-16549)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
57074	Fedora 16 : python-celery-2.2.8-1.fc16 (2011-16539)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2011-4356

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

medium

medium