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Posted on 29 November 2011
Source : packetstormsecurity.org Link
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TITLE:
Celery Argument Processing Privilege Escalation Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46973
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-28
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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Celery, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated
privileges.
The security issue is caused due to an error when handling certain
arguments passed to the daemon process, which can lead to certain
files being created with insecure permissions. This can be exploited
to send messages or execute code with escalated privileges.
The security issue is reported in versions prior to 2.4.4.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.4.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Celery:
https://github.com/ask/celery/blob/master/docs/sec/CELERYSA-0001.txt
https://github.com/ask/celery/pull/544
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