Vulnerability CVE-2015-0278
Published: 2015-05-18

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

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
10/10
10/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Libuv project -> Libuv 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 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/#!msg/libuv/0JZxwLMtsMI/jraczskYWWQJ
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150526.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-10
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