CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-12449
5.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-05-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
Description
An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c mishandles a file's user and group ownership during move (and copy with G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA) operations from admin:// to file:// URIs, because root privileges are unavailable.
Affected configurations
• gnome gvfs (>= 1.29.4 <= 1.41.2)
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.04
• fedoraproject fedora 29
• fedoraproject fedora 30
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/ Third Party Advisory