CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0240
6.2 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html blog.dscpl.com.au
- http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-3.5.html modwsgi.readthedocs.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0789.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59551 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60094 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/21/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67532 www.securityfocus.com
- http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html blog.dscpl.com.au
- http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-3.5.html modwsgi.readthedocs.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0789.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59551 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60094 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/21/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67532 www.securityfocus.com