CVE-2015-0278

libuv <0.10.34 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

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

References (7)

[Third Party Advisory] http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0186.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:228

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/libuv/libuv/commit/66ab38918c911bcff025562cf06237d7fedaba0c

[Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/215

[Mailing List] https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/libuv/0JZxwLMtsMI/jraczskYWWQJ

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150526.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-10

Scores

EPSS 0.0159

EPSS Percentile 81.4%

Classification

CWE

CWE-273

Status draft

Affected Products (3)

fedoraproject/fedora

libuv_project/libuv < 0.10.33

nodejs/node.js < 0.10.37

Timeline

Published May 18, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026