CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 6.2
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: HIGH
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2014-05-27
Last Modified Date: 2017-12-21