Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-0278

Title: Nodejs Node.Js Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-0278.

CWE Category CWE-273
Published Date May 18, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-0278: libuv before 0.10.34 does not properly drop group privileges, which allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

L
libuv 1
N
nodejs 1
J
joyent 1
L
libuv_project 1

Reference Links

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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-0278 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.