CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-0240

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2014-05-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-05-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The mod_wsgi module before 3.5 for Apache, when daemon mode is enabled, does not properly handle error codes returned by setuid when run on certain Linux kernels, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to the number of running processes.

Affected configurations

• modwsgi mod wsgi (<= 3.4) • modwsgi mod wsgi 1.0 • modwsgi mod wsgi 1.1 • modwsgi mod wsgi 1.2 • modwsgi mod wsgi 1.3 • modwsgi mod wsgi 1.4 • modwsgi mod wsgi 1.5 • modwsgi mod wsgi 1.6 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.0 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.1 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.2 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.3 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.4 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.5 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.6 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.7 • modwsgi mod wsgi 2.8 • modwsgi mod wsgi 3.0 • modwsgi mod wsgi 3.1 • modwsgi mod wsgi 3.2 • modwsgi mod wsgi 3.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References