CVE-2014-0240

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

mod_wsgi: through 3.4; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (+14)

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
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0789.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59551
http://secunia.com/advisories/60094
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/21/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67532
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
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0789.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59551
http://secunia.com/advisories/60094

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