CVE-2015-0278
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
10.0
Description
libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Fedora Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Affected | — |
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
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150526.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-10
CWEs
CWE-273
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.