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CVE-2014-8583

Published: 16/12/2014 Updated: 01/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 614
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

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

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: mod-wsgi vulnerability
mod_wsgi could be made to run programs with incorrect privileges ...
Amazon Linux 2: ALAS2-2018-987
Failure to handle errors when attempting to drop group privileges:mod_wsgi before 424 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 (CVE-2014-8583) ...
Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2018-987
Failure to handle errors when attempting to drop group privilegesmod_wsgi before 424 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 (CVE-2014-8583) ...
Red Hat: CVE-2014-8583
mod_wsgi before 424 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 ...

References

CWE-254http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.2.4.htmlhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/8http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2431-1http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:253http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49https://usn.ubuntu.com/2431-1/https://nvd.nist.govhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-8583
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