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SCA: security update for celery (GHSA-q4xr-rc97-m4xx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417886

Description

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

 - This affects the package celery before 5.2.2. It by default trusts the messages and metadata stored in
 backends (result stores). When reading task metadata from the backend, the data is deserialized. Given
 that an attacker can gain access to, or somehow manipulate the metadata within a celery backend, they
 could trigger a stored command injection vulnerability and potentially gain further access to the system.
 (CVE-2021-23727)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q4xr-rc97-m4xx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417886

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23727

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 6.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23727