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CVE-2015-0278

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-05-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-273

Description

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

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 21
• Libuv Project Libuv: through 0.10.33
• Node.js: before 0.10.37 — fixed in 0.10.37

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Node.js 0.10.37. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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
• 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

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