Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors Affecting mod_wsgi package, versions <0:3.4-12.el7_0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-MODWSGI-4973694
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 May 2014

Introduced: 21 May 2014

CVE-2014-0240  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-271  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 mod_wsgi to version 0:3.4-12.el7_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:1091.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mod_wsgi package and not the mod_wsgi package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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