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Vulnerability details: VCID-bajt-nqye-9ue8
Vulnerability ID VCID-bajt-nqye-9ue8
Aliases CVE-2011-4356
PYSEC-2011-17
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
http://secunia.com/advisories/46973
https://github.com/ask/celery/blob/master/docs/sec/CELERYSA-0001.txt
https://github.com/ask/celery/pull/544
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50825
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:03:14.549382+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/celery/PYSEC-2011-17.yaml 38.6.0