CVE-2014-8583 (GCVE-0-2014-8583)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-16 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:25
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
10 references
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|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-1… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
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Date Public
2014-06-19 00:00
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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