CVE-2014-8583

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2014-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

mod_wsgi before 4.2.4 for Apache, when creating a daemon process group, does not properly handle when group privileges cannot be dropped, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

mod_wsgi: through 4.2.4

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.html
http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.2.4.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:253
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2431-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.html

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