6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
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.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | from upstream: The issue is believed to affect Linux systems running kernel versions >= 2.6.0 and < 3.1.0. |