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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 9 | all | flower | < 0.8.3+dfsg-2 | flower_0.8.3+dfsg-2_all.deb |