CVE-2014-0240

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

modwsgi mod_wsgi

First reported 10 years ago

2014-05-27 14:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-21 02:29:00

Affected Software

modwsgi mod_wsgi 1.0

1.0

modwsgi mod_wsgi 1.1

1.1

modwsgi mod_wsgi 1.2

1.2

modwsgi mod_wsgi 1.3

1.3

modwsgi mod_wsgi 1.4

1.4

modwsgi mod_wsgi 1.5

1.5

modwsgi mod_wsgi 1.6

1.6

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.0

2.0

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.1

2.1

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.2

2.2

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.3

2.3

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.4

2.4

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.5

2.5

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.6

2.6

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.7

2.7

modwsgi mod_wsgi 2.8

2.8

modwsgi mod_wsgi 3.0

3.0

modwsgi mod_wsgi 3.1

3.1

modwsgi mod_wsgi 3.2

3.2

modwsgi mod_wsgi 3.3

3.3

References

http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html

http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-3.5.html

RHSA-2014:0789

59551

60094

[oss-security] 20140521 Security release for mod_wsgi (version 3.5)

67532

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