Privilege dropping in mod_wsgi - CVE-2014-8583
Published: April 11, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU11762
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8583
CWE-ID: CWE-271
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists during creating a daemon process group due to improper handling when group privileges cannot be dropped. A local attacker can gain root privileges.
The weakness exists during creating a daemon process group due to improper handling when group privileges cannot be dropped. A local attacker can gain root privileges.
Affected software
mod_wsgi
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Ubuntu
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8583
Update to version 4.2.4.