PHP may be executing as a "privileged" group and user, which could be a serious security vulnerability

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Published on 2012-09-27T18:52:34Z Indexed on 2012/10/02 9:49 UTC
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I ran some security tests on a Ubuntu 12.04 Server, and I've got these warnings :

PHP may be executing as a "privileged" group, which could be a serious security vulnerability.
PHP may be executing as a "privileged" user, which could be a serious security vulnerability.

In /etc/apache2/envvars, I have this:

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data

And all files in /var/www are having these user/group: www-data:www-data

Am I setting this correctly? What should I do to fix this problem?

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