Access Restriction Bypass Affecting grahamdumpleton/mod_wsgi package, versions [,3.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRAHAMDUMPLETONMODWSGI-2366422
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 May 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 May 2014

CVE-2014-0240  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade grahamdumpleton/mod_wsgi to version 3.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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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