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CVE-2014-8583

Date: December 16, 2014

mod_wsgi before 4.2.4 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.

Language: Python

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (13)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8583

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:253

Url: http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.2.4.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/8

Url: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2431-1

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8583

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-8583

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Security Features

CWE-254

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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