CVE-2017-14483: Gentoo Dev-Python-Flower

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gentoo Dev-Python-Flower: up to and including 0.9.1

Published 2017-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.