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.
                
            References
                    | Link | Resource | 
|---|---|
| https://bugs.gentoo.org/631020 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory | 
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Information
                Published : 2017-09-15 10:29
Updated : 2019-10-03 00:03
NVD link : CVE-2017-14483
Mitre link : CVE-2017-14483
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-14483
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Products Affected
                gentoo
- dev-python-flower
CWE
                
                    
                        
                        CWE-362
                        
            Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
