CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8583
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-254
Description
mod_wsgi before 4.2.4 for Apache, when creating a daemon process group, does not properly handle when group privileges cannot be dropped, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• modwsgi mod wsgi (<= 4.2.4)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.2.4.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:253 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2431-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49 security.gentoo.org
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.2.4.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:253 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2431-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49 security.gentoo.org