diff -uNr node-v12.10.0/deps/uv/src/unix/process.c node-v12.10.0.mod/deps/uv/src/unix/process.c
--- node-v12.10.0/deps/uv/src/unix/process.c	2019-09-04 18:36:23.000000000 +0300
+++ node-v12.10.0.mod/deps/uv/src/unix/process.c	2019-09-23 01:39:39.069030779 +0300
@@ -351,27 +351,6 @@
     _exit(127);
   }
 
-  if (options->flags & (UV_PROCESS_SETUID | UV_PROCESS_SETGID)) {
-    /* When dropping privileges from root, the `setgroups` call will
-     * remove any extraneous groups. If we don't call this, then
-     * even though our uid has dropped, we may still have groups
-     * that enable us to do super-user things. This will fail if we
-     * aren't root, so don't bother checking the return value, this
-     * is just done as an optimistic privilege dropping function.
-     */
-    SAVE_ERRNO(setgroups(0, NULL));
-  }
-
-  if ((options->flags & UV_PROCESS_SETGID) && setgid(options->gid)) {
-    uv__write_int(error_fd, UV__ERR(errno));
-    _exit(127);
-  }
-
-  if ((options->flags & UV_PROCESS_SETUID) && setuid(options->uid)) {
-    uv__write_int(error_fd, UV__ERR(errno));
-    _exit(127);
-  }
-
   if (options->env != NULL) {
     environ = options->env;
   }
