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CVE-2015-0278

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1410%

EPSS Percentile3.99th

PublishedMay 18, 2015

Last ModifiedMay 6, 2026

Vulnerability Description

libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

💻

Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 21

📦

Libuv Project

Libuv

<= 0.10.33

📦

Nodejs

Node.js

< 0.10.37

References & Advisories

🔗 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0186.html

🔗 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:228

🔗 https://github.com/libuv/libuv/commit/66ab38918c911bcff025562cf06237d7fedaba0c

🔗 https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/215

🔗 https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/libuv/0JZxwLMtsMI/jraczskYWWQJ

🔗 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150526.html

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-10

🔗 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0186.html

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