CVE-2014-0240: Modwsgi Mod Wsgi

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Modwsgi Mod Wsgi: up to and including 3.4; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; …

Published 2014-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.