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SCA: security update for celery (GHSA-rpc6-h455-3rx5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433825

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rpc6-h455-3rx5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433825

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4356

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4356

BID: 50825

cwe: CWE-269