Celery · Celery · CVE-2011-4356
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Celery versions 2.1 through 2.2.7
Celery versions 2.3 through 2.3.3
Celery versions 2.4 through 2.4.3
**Description**
The issue allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving crafted code that is executed by the worker process. This is due to the software changing the effective id but not the real id during processing of the --uid and --gid arguments to celerybeat, celeryd detach, celeryd-multi, and celeryev.
**Recommendations**
For Celery versions 2.1 through 2.2.7, update to version 2.2.8 or later.
For Celery versions 2.3 through 2.3.3, update to version 2.3.4 or later.
For Celery versions 2.4 through 2.4.3, update to version 2.4.4 or later.