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CVE-2014-0240
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…
Medium6.2EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 59551 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 67532 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-3.5.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140521 Security release for mod_wsgi (version 3.5) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0789 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 60094 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-0278 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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