VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-0240

CVSS score6.2 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-05-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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