CVE-2015-0278 Privilege escalation in n/a
Critical 10.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2015-0278 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2015-0278 is a critical vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 May 2015.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0278 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Fedoraproject Fedora. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-0278/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-0278/index.md)
Attackers can gain elevated privileges due to improper group privilege dropping in the libuv library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Not stated
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-0278?
CVE-2015-0278 is a critical vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 May 2015.
Official description
libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-273
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0278?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Libuv Project Libuv, Nodejs Node.js.
How do I fix CVE-2015-0278?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2015-0278 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0278 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hmvq-6hjm-q8hj, MGASA-2015-0186.