CVE-2014-8583
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-254
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (35th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-8420)
- Published
- December 16, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-8420 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- modwsgi / mod wsgi
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.html
- http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.2.4.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:253
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2431-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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