CVE-2015-0278

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2015-0278 · Published 18/05/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-0278 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting libuv (libuv project), node.js (nodejs).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.10.37 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libuv libuv_project	`≤ 0.10.33`	No fix yet
node.js nodejs	`< 0.10.37`	`0.10.37`

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

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