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CVE-2014-0240
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 6.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 1.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- High
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:modwsgi:mod_wsgi:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67532
- http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-3.5.html
- http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/21/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60094
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59551
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0789.html