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HistoryMay 23, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2014-0240

2014-05-2300:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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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.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur from upstream: The issue is believed to affect Linux systems running kernel versions >= 2.6.0 and < 3.1.0.
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarchmod-wsgi< 3.3-4ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu13.10noarchmod-wsgi< 3.4-4ubuntu2.1.13.10.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchmod-wsgi< 3.4-4ubuntu2.1.14.04.1UNKNOWN

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%